Re: OT: Dvorak keyboard layout

From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
Subject: Re: OT: Dvorak keyboard layout


> En réponse à Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...>:
>
> >
> > And wouldn't it be so appropriate if the only language with a word for
> > maggelity not like the word Maggel was Maggel itself?
> >
>
> True!!! Very true!!! You've convinced me!!!
>
> Now, let's try to explain why they would have a monosyllabic word for this
> concept... ;))))
>
> Christophe.
That's easy.  In proto-Maggel, there was a word *tansa "characteristic,
idiom".  A 1st person plural possessive ending was added, *-wo; followed by
an ending putting it in the class of nouns of spoken and airy things, *-he.
Then an adjectival prefix was added, *fid-.  The result?  *fidtansawohe >
fdtnsaohe

Of course, even in proto-Maggel, where such words could easily be derived,
the affixes depended greatly on which class the root word belonged to, using
different forms for the (frequent) irregulars.

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