Re: puns (was: Delason web site (was: Re: A Web Design Question))
| From: | Irina Rempt <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 16, 2001, 9:41 |
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Dan Jones wrote:
> Does anyone else incorporate puns into their conlangs?
I do borrow words, but borrowings are never *intended* as puns, and
only very rarely intentional at all; _bryn_ "mountain" (Welsh "hill")
is purely unintentional, _orla_ "eagle" (from Church Slavonic) is
intentional, because I realized when I saw the CS word that it
analyzes in Valdyan as "grand master bird".
Irina
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