Re: Dipping my toe in the water

And pure preference for modifiers-first kept my
conlang from being Sanokayada!

Clint

8< all-out surgery >8

There is a major tendency
> to let
> > >the name of the conlang begin with A, D, S, T or
> V. And
> > >especially T.
> >
> > Gaak! That'd be three of my four conlangs worth
> the name - Tairezazh,
> > Steianzh (or Steienzh [stEI@nZ] as the speakers
> say) and Tersnuvu. Only
> > Kalini Sapak is original then ...
>
> Uatakassi LOOKS like it doesn't follow that trend,
> until you realize
> that ua- is simply a gender prefix (animates other
> than animals; e.g.,
> fire, language, social institutions, emotions, some
> abstractions, some
> plants, insects for some speakers, etc.), so that
> the root is actually
> Takassi.  Eek!  It's actually a closet T-conlang!
> :-)
>
> --
> "There's no such thing as 'cool'.  Everyone's just a
> big dork or nerd,
> you just have to find people who are dorky the same
> way you are." -
> overheard
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