> Recently, in response to my "How many decades had briefscript/BrSc been
> haunting me?" A conlanger wrote me privately:
>
> >>Abbreviations *shudder* :P ... never use more abbreviations than
> necessary, right. My parents call using too many abbreviations "Aküfi"
> ["a:kyfi], that is supposed to be short for "Abkürzungsfimmel"
> (Abkürzung = abbreviation; Fimmel = obsession).<<
>
> I've never really like the name BrSc, and disliked BrScA and BrScB even
> less. The trouble was the language simply had no name. I used to use
> 'briefscript' (always with quotes) as a sort of place-holder till it
> got
> its proper name. Then someone suggested using BrSc (which could be read
> ad_libitem as "brief script" or "Brown script" - tho I know at least
> one
> conlanger pronounces it [br=sk]) and that name stuck.
>
> But now the things has produced two offspring, BrScA and BrScB are
> really
> not good - they're so darned awkward to type, for one thing :)
>
> It's really high time the poor things got named. BP suggested that
> BrScA
> has its one CVC shape name. The word shall have no meaning other than
> the
> name of the language. I agree. As |y| is a vowel (= /ai/) in BrScA, I
> did
> toy with either 'xyz' or 'zyx' as the name. But maybe not very
> imaginative.
>
> Any better ideas?
>
> As for BrScB, it will have three consonants a_la Semitic ;)
> The obvious would be something like 'brs', 'brx', I guess. But other
> suggestions are welcome.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Ray
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