Re: CHAT: False friends - echos from the mother tounge

Harald Stoiber hat geschrieben:

> What would you do in the following case? Let us say,
> you have a root "sat" and an inflectional
> ending "an"... would you avoid the remaining
> "satan"? Just a question. Are you trying to avoid
> inclusion of negative or unpleasant terms of your
> mother tounge into your conlang?
Well, German has a whole slew of words that sound like
English curse words. 'Fach' [fax] and 'Damm' [dam] are
the only ones I can think of right off hand, but you
get the idea. If I avoided those words in German, I
have every right to avoid words like that in my
conlang, but since I use 'Fach' and 'Damm' freely,
even when monolingual English-speakers are around, I
have no reason to avoid them in conlang.

Then again, words like that never show up in my
conlang. [x] can't appear at the end of a word, and
[m] is rare. I'm pretty sure I have [fak] somewhere in
my conlang, though, and if not, then it's time to add
it to my dictionary. Just for laughs, you see.

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"Alle Idolen müssen sterben."
"All idols must die."

--Einstürzende Neubauten, "Seele Brennt" (Soul is on Fire)

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