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Re: Second report on Koni'

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, March 27, 2003, 19:58
En réponse à Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:

> > Well, the latter seems extremely improbable to me.
To me too :) .
> BTW, in Dutch we have the same phonemenon: "Oekraïens" vs. "Oekraïns", > and > "Oekraïner" vs. "Oekraïener". I reasons of spelling and pronunciation, I > prefer > "Oekraïens" and "Oekraïner". >
I like the one with the -e-. But then, I'm known to like nonsense orthographies :)) .
> How much time did you need to acquire all this knowledge? ;) >
To be fair, five minutes! :)) Just a quick google, a quick use of http://www.foreignword.com/Tools/dictsrch.htm to check various dictionaries, and that was it :)) . When you know where to search, the Internet is an extremely fast and powerful tool ;))) . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang.