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HUMOUR: Reformas del español (was: "Euro English": is this for real???)

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Friday, October 6, 2000, 17:06
Jeff Jones wrote:
>>nasione ispanoablante gosemo berdaderamente del idioma >>de Serbante y Kebedo. >> >>Eso si: nunka asetaremo ke potensia etranjera token >>kabeyo de letra eñe. Eñe rrepresenta balore ma elebado >>de tradision ispanika y primero kaeremo mueto ante ke >>asetar bejasione a simbolo ke a sio korason >>bibifikante de itoria katisa epanola unibersa. > >I haven't checked out the whole thing, but I notice that while final and >preconsonantal /s/ have usually been dropped, they still occur in a few >places: ispanoablante, ispanika, rrreformas klabes?....>
Hmm, now that you point it out......The fellow who posted it mentioned that he "got it from a friend" (who got it from a friend....); probably somewhere along the line someone slipped into old habits. Personal Opinion of one who's had a life-long love affair with the Span. language: "That's the ugliest thing I ever saw" (to borrow LBJ's comment at the unveiling of his official portrait). I'll bet there are similar "proposed reforms" for many of our favorite languages!! HANDS OFF THE ORTHOGRAPHY! ;-) obConlang: In devising my Kash font, I finally took matters in hand and introduced a "v" character; transitional glide "w" now occurs only in /u_V/ or some /a_V/ or /a+_u/. So former /sawu/ 'water' remains, pron. /sáU/ (diphthong) ; /ma+umit/ 'I use' remains mawumit, pron. /maúmit/ ; but former /kuwus/ 'thanks' is now kuvus; lawi 'more' is now lavi, etc.