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Re: McGuffey Readers and animals

From:joaoeugenio2003 <joaoeugenio2003@...>
Date:Thursday, March 24, 2005, 22:31
Hello everyone!
     Where can I download the first (and others too) McGuffey Reader? I
lost my e-mails, so I can't find the message that could answer this
question (I remember this topic was discuted many times here).
     Another question: I have serious problems about the "sound" of my
language. I have a grammar that I'm satisfied with, but I have already
tried many and many phonetics rules and sounds. My language (laman
language) have been similar to the astec, slavic, latin, tupi. I have
even tried inumerous ways to form words (stupid ones, sometimes). And I
never get satisfied... anyone had already the same problems? And how did
you manage this?

Carsten Becker escreveu:

> Hey! > > So I downloaded the first McGuffey Reader and skimmed a bit > through it. What gave me headache is that there are > frequently mentioned everyday animals. Since the Ayeri are > supposed to live on another planet, there are of course no > dogs, cats, duck(ling)s and such per se. But I don't know > enough about Biology and I can't draw well enough to make > up own animals of the respective kinds. Should I simply > make up words for these animals then? Should I mangle their > Latin name or their German or their English name? Supposing > American astronauts (Of course Americans! Who else?!) > landed on Areca, and then even in the vast equatorial > forests of the continent Cataya[1], managing to make their > way through all the L.A.N to Airon Nuavirang ... It's > fairly uncertain that in a short time, everyone on that big > planet (120% Earth's size!) would know all the animals > common on Earth ... And supposing that Areca is in a > completely different corner of the universe, the > probability to get there during the next 50 years or so is > incredibly small, except they really find a way to let > sci-fi stuff (e.g. travelling at lightspeed/through > wormholes [black holes]) come true, what I strongly doubt. > I guess I should really make up names for animals and say > that they're quite similar to ours. What did you others do > in this case? > > Thanks, > Carsten > > > [1] I recently made up names for some of the continents of a > map of Areca I drew "pre-last" summer. -- At least my > drawing skills are good enough to hand-draw a map. But > better don't ask me to reproduce parts of it by hand. Even > with checkered paper this is a hard job for me. > > -- > Edatamanon le matahanarà benenoea eityabo ena Bahis Pinena, > 15-A8-58-1-3-2-2 ena Curan Tertanyan ... Pericyanang nuhiro > emino 15-A8! > » http://www.beckerscarsten.de/?conlang=ayeri > >