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Re: OT: What the guligy is this? (was Re: Musical languistics)

From:Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...>
Date:Sunday, June 8, 2003, 4:04
Apologies for going OT on an already OT thread...

J Y S Czhang wrote:

> Hopefully something not too common for languages to name themselves... >Ferinstanz, the creolized pidgin Bislama is named after the delicious
seaslug.
>My g0miileg0 could be translated to "junk-words" or "trash-toy(s)."
That's the second message I've read today where you used "ferinstanz" for "for instance". It's a perfect name for a Rhean province. There are a few Rhean words that end in -nz (looking it up: benz, klienz, klinz, k'öglenz, konz, marinz, menz, redanz, stanz, s'emanz, ühic'anz) so it sounds like a native word. Now I just need to give the people of Ferinstanz their own dialect. Anyway, forgive this tangent. Re g0miileg0: Is there a website for it?* M *question from the hypocrite who always wants to see people's conlang webpages but can not be bothered to finish his own :)