Re: Random |mormon| :-) (was: my proposals for a philosophical language)

Steg Belsky wrote:
>On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 01:01:45 -0800 Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
><lloannna@...> writes:
> > Anyway, enough of my rantings.  I strongly suggest that you consider
> > why,
> > precisely, so many things have proper names that are more or less
> > universally known (e.g., the word "Mormon" is translated only in the
> > sense
> > that we modify it grammatically, so that, for example, the Russian
> > Book of
> > Mormon is "Kniga Mormona")  There's absolutely no reason to delete
> > words
> > that are easy to say, have a meaning that resonates OR that is
> > distinct and
> > not shared by anything else (as an LDS church member I'm rather
> > curious as
> > to whether "mormon" has a meaning outside of our context in other
> > languages).
>
> > Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
>-
>
>You do realize, don't you, that just by saying that you're begging
>someone to put the word "mormon" into their conlang as something
>completely random?  Like 'carrot' or 'jumping jacks'? :-)
Hm, (un-)happily, /mormon/ violates the phonotactics of all the conlangs of
mine that have had any serious work on them - Tairezazh can't have non-final
/m/, Steienzh can't have /o/ in a non-initial syllable, Altaii can't have
the sequence /-rm-/, Kalini Sapak, Tersnuvu and Yargish don't even have /o/.

                                                          Andreas

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