Re: Dipping my toe in the water

Am 27.01.02, Jonathan Knibb yscrifef:

> Newbie alert!
Ye Gods! Another one! ;)

> To introduce myself: my name's Jonathan Knibb, i'm a junior doctor from
What's a "junior doctor"? I can think of a number of
possibilities, but doubt they'd even be close.

> Two questions for my first post.  Firstly: I've recently had to change my
> conlang's name (owing to major phonological overhaul), and came up with
> Telona as reasonably euphonic and representative of the language's
> sounds/phonology.  It strikes me, though, that (probably not by coincidence
> .... :) ) 'Telona' is rather similar to the names of certain other,
> higher-profile conlangs, notably Tokana, Tepa and Teonaht (and perhaps
> others that Dr. Freud is preventing me from remembering :) ).
Not so high profile, but it's quite similar to my Talarian.

> Now I know
> this is a slightly unusual thing to ask, but does anyone have any objection
> to my using the name Telona for my conlang?  If so, now would be a good time
> to know.
For my part, I don't mind. As a matter of fact, it makes it
much easier when referring to another's conlang, cos I can
just say "you know, that T-something conlang"...

> Jonathan.
Padraic.
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