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Re: Future English

From:Rob Haden <magwich78@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 17:35
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:30:59 -0800, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:

>> >"Filet of badam" on the menu doesn't sound too >> appealing! Maybe we >> >could retain the word "sole" as the name for the >> fish. The fish is >> >so-called from its shape similar to the "badam" of >> the foot. >> >> Heh, I'd forgotten that one. Whoops. >> >> Probably the fish would be renamed to 'badamfixa' >> "bottom-fish" >> or 'futafixa' "foot-fish". >> >> - Rob >> > >Or perhaps, since we like to borrow from French for >food terms, or at least "Frenchify" them, we might >just pronounce the final 'e' in "sole", or change the >spelling to "soleh". > >--gary
Good idea. Another obvious solution that I missed before is simply to extend the word "sole" to "sole-fish" -- 'solfixa' in my Future English. Of course, that would make it become "sun-fish" and there's already one of those... :b - Rob