Re: ,Language' in language name?

In a message dated 11/27/01 9:44:54 AM, danielandreasson@SWIPNET.SE writes:

<< Could there be a correlation like this?


developed conculture -> does not contain "language",

but rather a toponym or some word that describes

the people, or similar.


no conculture -> contains "language", since there

is no culture to refer to. >>

    Well, not for me.  I've never created a conculture and only one of my
languages has the word for "language" in it.  I never liked the idea of
putting "language" in the title because (at the time) I'd never heard of a
natural language that did that.  Now that I've taken the Creoles class,
though, I know there are a bunch.  Maybe that's why my most recent is the one
that got the title "language"...?  Possibly influenced by Tok Pisin, or maybe
plain old Kriol.  By the way, "Media Lengua" is probably the cleverest name
for a natural language I've ever heard.

-David

"s&m raSalo SirejsatIm, spAjs Zi v&TIl dZaGagzaZA."
"If it keeps on rainin', the levee's going to break."
        --Led Zeppelin