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

>A precious day may be yours!
>
>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?
You know, Finnish's got a form of a word exactly like that (well, spellt
"saatan" (the -n being 1st person singularis but anyway pronounced like
"satan"'s pronounced in Swedish). Never given me any problems, and this
real-life example struck me when I first ran into this situation. I do try
to avoid having the tetragrammaton to appear in it's most probable forms in
my languages tho'.