--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@H...> wrote:
> What I think is that:
>
> ANADEW is "Another Natlang Already Does It Even/Exept Worse"
(using even or
> except seems to differ depending of the person)
>
> and
>
> ANADEWISM is simply ANADEW with the "-ism" suffix that indicates a
system,
> manner, or condition and forms a noun so an anadewism is simply a
feature,
> idea that used to be in another language in contrast with anadew
that is
> only an interjection
>
> Is it this?
>
> - Max
Like an Americanism is whatever an American does or says?
or Parkinsonism is the motion characteristic of Parkinson's disease?
That makes sense.
So an ANLADIEWism would be a "feature" of a conlang which somebody
thought either caused difficulty or degraded its aesthetic elegance,
but which is shared by some NatLang in which it is even more
thoroughgoing and/or has even clearer unwanted effects.
Should I be leaving the "L" out?
---Tom