Re: UVW (was: Lingo)

En réponse à Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...>:

>
> Maggelity /m@gE:lIti/ (noun) The state of being entirely
> unpredictable.
> [from _Maggel_ a constructed language by Christophe Grandsire, which
> had
> an unpredictable orthography +_ity_]
>
*has*! I intend my language to live very long!!! :)))

> Etabnannery /r@mn{n@ri/ (noun) The state of appearing entirely
> unpredictable, but, upon closer analysis, failing at even being that.
> [from _Etábnanni_ a constructed language by Tristan McLeay, which was
> *supposed* to have an unpredictable orthography, but ended up just
> having a confusing one. Damn people trying to make patterns
> everywhere.
> At least it's a bugger to typeset!... err... back to the derivation
> +_ery_]
>
LOL If ever dictionary definitions become like that, I want to buy a few more
dictionaries ;))) .

> There we go, now we just have to convince people to use them enough.
> Do
> you think they'd be included in a dictionary if even just some
> conlangers used them often enough? Or would they decide just that our
> words were merely slang and not worth of dictionarifying?
>
Well, you do have dictionaries of slang, so why not a dictionary of conlanging
slang?! :)) . Who thinks it's a good idea of article for the Conlang
Journal? :)))

>
> I like your language too. (You get the idea it's not that hard for me
> to
> like a language, do you? Maybe I have to put in better standards.)
>
Well, a non-standard orthography is already a nice criterion don't you
think? :)) (not that I don't like languages with standard orthographies. It
usually means they also have an own script, which I like even more!!! :))
That's why Maggel also has its own alphabet :))) - luckily with a one-to-one
correspondence with a subset of the Latin alphabet, since it's derived from
it :)) -).

>
> No, never! Bizarre spellings must survive for all time! Aeternity,
> even!
> (No, no-one spells it 'aeternity'. But (a) it's a bizarre spelling and
> (b) it looks even longer than merely 'eternity', at least to me, so I
> use it.)
>
I like that spelling :)) . In fact, I like very much the spelling |ae|. It
appears quite often in Maggel :)) (|ea| too, which often marks the diphtongue
[&a] :))) ).

Christophe.

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