Re: Future English

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