Re: Future English

--- Rob Haden <magwich78@...> wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:58:32 -0000, caeruleancentaur
> <caeruleancentaur@...> 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

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