Re: Future English

Quoting Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>:

> --- 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".
Bah. The only reasonable solution is to call it "solfixa", and the let the poor
future bastards wonder what the heck it has to do with the Sun.

                                                        Andreas