Re: Maggel

Quoting Danny Wier <dawiertx@...>:

> From: "Carsten Becker" <post@...>
>
> > You guys are quite often talking about "Maggel". I'm on the list for
> > about 3/4 year now, I could figure out from what you wrote that Maggel
> > might be a conlang which maybe invented by someone from this list
> > (Christophe I guess), and that Maggel is near 100% pure evil concerning
> > the weirdness of languages. I just haven't found out yet where I can see
> > its grammar'n'stuff. Where can I find it?
>
> I Googled and didn't find anything either except references to 'Maggelity'.
> Christophe, I believe, is the inventor of Maggel, and it's one of the group
> of conlangs known as frankenlangs: these are conlangs that are especially
> grotesque in some way. (Klingon is the most famous of this class.) With
> Maggel, it's an extremely unpredictable and incongruent orthography. It's a
> parody of English in a way.
>
> The name itself isn't even pronounced how it's written. And I can't remember
> how it's pronounced.
I took the liberty of making _magel_ the Meghean word for "evil". In best
maggelic tradition it's pronounced as you'd expect for a word so spelt in
romanized Meghean, namely ['madZel], not at all like the Maggel pronounciation,
which is [m@'gEL], if memory serves.

                                                                     Andreas

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