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Re: CHAT: gynecolalia (was Re: TRIVIAL CHAT: Political spelling (was: Re:

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 30, 1998, 16:24
And Rosta scripsit:

> As it happens, rather > than _wymyn_ I would prefer a shape that echoes _womb_ and _moon_, > e.g. _womon_, but, as us conlangers say, de bustiguts non > disputandem.
"Womon" is indeed the usual singular of "womyn" or "wymyn".
> I see nothing less than commendable about revamping old words (for > example, I hope (for linguistic reasons that I will adumbrate on > request) that in my lifetime _negro_ will replace _black_, _coloured_ > and other such terms (such as _African American_ as a racial rather > than ethnic designator) and _honky_ will replace _white_),
By all means adumbrate. BTW, And, your mailserver rejects mailings from mine for low-level technical reasons, so I haven't been ignoring your messages, I just haven't been able to respond. In a word, then, I can't find any other And[rew] Rosta either, through altavista or through the various person-search services that Netscape 4.0 supports directly. Further, it astonishes me that you can say "this ball is biggest", but the linguistic intuitions of linguisticians (sounds like a line from a patter song) are notoriously unreliable: they will accept all sorts of rubbish as grammatical and idiomatic. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)