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Re: Hello everybody

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Monday, March 25, 2002, 22:56
Danny Wier wrote:
>| > Incidentally, has anyone done anything interesting with >| > acronymization, abbreviation etc in a conlang? Something that >| > differs significantly from English? > >My personal favorite language in the area of abbreviation is Hebrew, where >you >get acronyms and such that become real words: Tanakh, Rashi, STA"M....
I reg'larly do that in Swedish, and to an extent also in English. Some ones to try to identify: /ajrk/ /@fejk/ /@fejkt/ /ajmow/ /ajmi:/ /Eg/ /ajp@/ /s{mp@/ /d{t/ /{k/ /nOm/ /gEn/ /z=g/ /pl=/ /lOl/ Some easy, so hard, I guess ... Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com