Conlang-L-isms (was: overlong subject line)

Thanks for the clarifications on YAEPT and ANADEW. Not new phenomena here,
but newly named to my knowledge.


> > Oh, and it seems that emphasis is now marked with acúte or gràve, not
> > *asterisk*.
>
> That one comes from Dutch. A véry nice touch :)
I'd guessed it might have been, but didn't like to guess in public :)


Re: x-pondia -- I have no problem with the pond, that's self-evident. It's
the specific coinage itself which fascinates. Maybe I should investigate....

Hm, first use here seems to have been on 19-07-99, by Fabian:

# Interesting. In Rightpondia, it's a boink, in Leftpondia, it's a con.
# Is this difference Pondian, or am I reading too much into it?

I should have been around here then, but maybe I was nomail. I often am (and
will be again soon, albeit only for a week or so). Curiously, after that
thread the expression didn't reappear on Conlang for 18 months, but is now
common.


> > Some other things - Maggelity- A completely illogical/irregular
orthography,
> > adjective Maggelic.(eg. English)
> >                                Etabnannery - An orthography which has
> > extremely complicated rules, but is regular(eg. Irish)
>
> I think Maggelity and Etabnannery are old enough that you'll already know
> about them
Nope... (although I was already aware of Maggel of course)

>, but I'll just mention that the pronunciation of them might
> seem a bit backwards: Maggelity is /magE:l/+ity whereas Etabnannery is
> /ramn&n@ri/.
LOL.

> (In Etabnanni, a word pronounced /ra_Lm&_Leri/ would need to
> be spelt more like etabnyanERI because the silent <i> that gets dropped in
> Etabnannery is what signals the change in pronunciation of the <a>.)
This is starting to sound like Mornington Crescent. Or Namyuan.

James

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