Re: OT: Opinions wanted: person of vocatives
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 4, 2003, 9:23 |
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Staving Erich Rickheit:
>To try and ObConLang this, what do people think about creating
>neologisms in dead languages? If we need to mention cars or computers
>or airplanes, how would you suggest constructing vocabulary that
>is sensible in Attic to describe these?
I personally would love to get my hands on a copy of the Lexicon
Latinitatis Recentis, where the Vatican does precisely this (presumably for
use in official documents). The samples you hear from this are often quite
amusing, eg res incognita volans, fabula Americae occidentis.
Pete
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