Re: Question about Romlangs/CeltiConlangs

Jan van Steenburgen

> "Italkit" is the normal Hebrew name for "Italian?" How do Hebrew-speakers
> distinguish between Italian and Judajca?
Why, the same way that Romance-speakers distinguish between Easter and
Passover, viz.  Our Italian vs. Italian in the Irish Empire (or whatever).
(Anyway, I don't think anyone *speaks* Hebrew in that timeline; there
wouldn't have been anything to restore it to spoken use.)

This point was brought home to me when someone on an international
(but less language-savvy) mailing list wished a happy Easter to all
Christian and Jewish list members.  I hastily jumped in and explained
everything in patented cowanian fashion.

--
Deshil Holles eamus.  Deshil Holles eamus.  Deshil Holles eamus.
Send us, bright one, light one, Horhorn, quickening, and wombfruit. (3x)
Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa!  Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa!  Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa!
  -- Joyce, _Ulysses_, "Oxen of the Sun"       jcowan@reutershealth.com