Re: Naming conventions
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 12, 2007, 23:17 |
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On 4/12/07, Dave Rutan <rutan3@...> wrote:
> Let's imagine a conland/auxlang which was created to allow humans and
> various bizzare alien species to communicate. Some of
....
> Since there are only 10 syllables, there's no way the given names for
> known planets or their inhabitants can be 'imported' into the language,
> so should the users of said language simply designate a name for each
> specie and their planet, or has someone at some time come up with a
> suggested method for giving proper names in a Solresol-like language?
I expect some names could be translated into said auxlang
based on their meaning in the source language;
others would have to be replaced by arbitrary names made
up within the auxlang's phonology. Some might could
be transliterated into the more limited phonology if the
phonology of the source language is not too much more
complex than that of the auxlang.
Very likely such an auxlang would have a prefix, or article,
or something, that marks the following word/phrase as
a proper name, no?
--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry
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