Re: The Saharan page (was: Basque article)

Barry Garcia wrote:
>
> grandsir@natlab.research.philips.com writes:
> >  Well, now I feel better. I hope I didn't bother anybody. To be more
> >conlang-related (at least at the end of the post :) ), has anybody ever
> >used this mechanism to create new words (taking first syllable or
> >syllables of some words and putting them together), and does this
> >mechanism exist in natlangs (it would be an interesting kind of
> >compounding)?
> >
> Hmm that would be interesting. Perhaps take the first syllables of each
> word in a phrase to make up a new word. For instance: "just say no" -
> juseino (/dZ@seino/ )- resistance =) (well it's silly but thats the best i
> can come up with right now)
>
        It's not that silly at all! On the contrary, it's very interesting. I'm
sure I've already seen something like that somewhere. But where? At
least, the idea of contracting a whole sentence or phrase to make up a
new word is very good. Moten uses it to a limited extent (one word! :) )
with the word |lag /l_jag/: "bye" coming from ko|la ag /kol_ja ag/:
"leave in peace."

> >        Well, thank you for reading everything till here, and thank you
> >for
> >your patience (I shouldn't have read this page, it has been stupid, but
> >it didn't think this page would be so stupid).
>
> No problem........it was actually the most interesting mail i have had in
> my mailbox all day :). I personally laughed out loud when i read the page.
> It's just so preposterous. His other pages are too. It's like reading a
> conspiracy theory :).
>
        Yes, that's exactly the impression I had. By the way, I'm looking
outside and the weather is good (blue sky, few clouds), like three hours
ago, whereas one hour and a half ago, during the eclipse, the cloud
cover was impenetrable. I saw a nearly-total eclipse during half a
second, but that's all. So if there's a conspiracy somewhere, it's
against me, and *they* are using the weather to make me unhappy! :)
(just kidding. In fact it was fun. The eclipse was at most at 95%
complete and I could see it through the cloud cover, when it was not too
thick).

> >
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