----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: Conlang-L-isms (was: overlong subject line)
> James Campbell scripsit:
>
> > 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....
>
> I think it's repeatedly been reinvented independently, including by me.
> Back in June 2002, I posted this (but I had been using the terms before
> that):
>
> # Nihil Sum scripsit:
> #
> # > And since we're on the topc of mangling French loanwords: does anybody
know
> # > how the "f" got into "lieutenant"?
> #
> # Only in Rightpondia and Northicia[*], be it noted; here in Lower
Leftpondia,
> # it's /lu'tEn@n.../. Did lootenants and leftenants face off against
> # each other at Yorktown, or at the burning of Toronto, one wonders?
> # (The TelePrompTer of Peter Jennings, noted anchor of a Leftpondian
national
> # teleprogram "XYZ News" -- and Northician by birth -- actually displays
> # "lootenant" so he won't slip and reveal his foreign origin, quelle
horreur!)
> #
> # Or were the dialects not discrepant enough in those days?
> #
> # [*] And the other Rightpondian colonies, such as Downundria,
Sarfeffrica,
> # Bharattia, Cecilia, and of course Aotearoa.
>
Well, we now have names for a lot of the English speaking countries. What's
Cecilia? And I think Bharattia is India, but I'm not sure.