Re: Meghean word; _aeohas_ "non-existence" (was: Common Orcish Article (Long))

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Here, you could either analyze it as merely an orthographic trick to
> avoid an unwanted |oa| sequence, or as an overenthusiastic indication
> of the subphonemic glide breaking up the unwanted [o.a] sequence into
> [o.ja]. Without this convention, you couldn't know whether **aeoas
> spelt [ajojas] or [ajewas], which apparently troubles the
> megheanophones more than the existing ambiguities.
Fools. Which is to say, <aeoas> looks so much better than <aeohas>.

> > Meghean, la nouvelle langue mechante?
>
> Which means?
Why, quite clearly 'Megan, the novel language of merchants'. :)

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Tristan

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