Re: CHAT: Californian secessionists (was Re: Californian vowels [was Re: Liking German])
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 6, 2001, 0:08 |
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On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 23:18:28 -0400, Dennis Paul Himes <himes@...>
wrote:
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>ObConlang: "Snyry Hsmohop" is Gladilatian for "Connecticut". It means "Long
>River" (with the proper noun suffix "op").
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According to my previous method for translating names, Connecticut was
"kènérikèt" in Tirèlhat (pronounced [k@'nE4Ik@t]), essentially the same
pronunciation as in English. But I'm not sure that translating intervocalic
English /t/ as Tirèlhat /r/ is a great idea, since it could be ambiguous
with English /r/. So for now it's "kènétikèt". Tirèlhat doesn't translate
the meanings of names even if they're known: New Jersey for instance is
just "nu-xhêrzi" [nM'dZ@rzI], not "zhumi-xhêrzi".
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