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

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)