Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 24

Mike Ellis wrote:
>  I tend to rip words from any language, often mutating them, sometimes
> not.
> Hanuman Zhang seems to be of the same school of thought on that --
> although
> I don't even attempt historical plausibility. The result is a grab-bag
> of
> roots with mostly unrecognisable origins. As long as it sounds like what
> it
> means, I'll take it. It does help fill out the lexicon.
>
> M
>
> "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Michael D. Ellis
I've pointed out many times how many stems in Kalini Sapak is simply the
consonants ripped out from some real-world word for the same thing, with KLN
"clan" and SPK "speak" leading the way.

My other langs has primarily words drawn out of thin air, but some words are
more or less obvious distortions of real-world languages' words. The most
obvious example is perhaps Tairezazh _gron_ "time". I strongly suspect that
no-one can guess what Telenzh _zepo^n_ [z@'po:n] "armed" is ultimately a
distortion of. It does, however, actually retain two of the letters of the
original word.

                                                             Andreas

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