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Re: [romconlang] -able

From:Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 13:54
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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