Re: Ygyde is fun!
From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
Date: | Sunday, January 9, 2005, 9:38 |
Quoting Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>:
> On 8 Jan 2005, at 10.21 am, Andrew Nowicki wrote:
>
> > Memorizing euroclone vocabulary is as much
> > fun as memorizing a phone book. Only a
> > masochist can enjoy learning Lojban's grammar.
> > Ygyde is different! The essence of Ygyde is
> > playing with words. Suppose that V = vowel and
> > C = consonant. Any word having structure of
> > VCVCV, CVCVCV, and VCVCVCV is a compound word
> > that may have a meaning. For example:
> > "ywowo" = "noun hungry disk." Does this word
>
> For the record, in Wide/Wither, that word would probably be something
> like
> [2:u)], which has to be one of the niftier diphthongs I've invented.
I've been known to use that one as an interjection of mild disgust.
Andreas