Re: [romconlang] -able
| From: | Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 13:54 |
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On 15/04/08 23:41:31, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Benct Philip Jonsson
> <bpj@...>
> wrote:
> > On 15.4.2008 Mark J. Reed wrote:
> >
> > > Missing Ray?
> > > Call BPJ!
> >
> > Missing a spade?
> > Use a teaspoon!
>
> 1) Unfortunate racial overtones of word choice.
> 2) Woefully understates actual abilities of stand-in.
> 3) Doesn't rhyme.
(1) I'm missing the racial overtones --- maybe it's best that way.
(2) Right on the mark. Although a teaspoon is a much better tool for
measuring out 5 mL or stirring tea, depending on the kind of teaspoon
in question, than a spade.
(3) This is CONLANG. Surely deficiencies in English rhyme are
completely irrelevant. There's bound to be a language somewhere
(natural or constructed) in which they rhyme.
(4) Why did this thread get "[romconlang]" attached? AFAICT it's been a
purely CONLANG affair.
--
Tristan.
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