Re: Degaspregos

On Sunday, December 9, 2001, at 03:05 , Padraic Brown wrote:

> Am 09.12.01, Yoon Ha Lee yscrifef:
>> On Sunday, December 9, 2001, at 02:14 , Padraic Brown wrote:
>>
>> Er...Go raibh maith agat?  (I'm sure I'm missing a diacritical or two,
>> and
>> *very* sure that my pronunciation would be utter mangle-ness, but one has
>> to start somewhere...)
>
> Que!? Come ty y rayrbeth et chath! Ach!!
>
> Talk about crosslingual word play!
>
<hanging head>  I *thought* that was "good day," but I got it out of some
kids' newsletter thing from the _Houston Chronicle_ years ago, and as a
consequence don't recall it very well.

Um...attempted understanding:
What!?  Why you [?] [?] and [?]!  Ach!!

<sheepish look>  Baa...um...Go maire tu i bhfad agus rath?  Meep?

>> :-)  Whereas I grew up with God knows how many of those curved
>> diacriticals in the romanization of Korean, most especially on subway
>> signs (labeled in Korean and English/romanized Korean as "appropriate").
>> I have no idea what they're called: they're like upside-down
>> circumflexes,
>>   except curved instead of angular.
>
> Yuck!
>
Yeah, my thoughts too, but I'm not overly fond of the vowel digraphs
either.  Examples:

"eu" = [i"] (barred-i)
"ae" = [E]

Nyeh.

>>> By the way, I think the 'official' word is "innumeracy".
>>
>> It's the term John Allen Paulos uses, but I find that most people I meet
>> parse "math illiteracy" more quickly than "innumeracy."  <helpless shrug>
>
> Well, that's three quarters the fun, throwing strange words like
> that their way!
<laugh>
BTW, could I trouble you for conlang greetings/farewells in Kerno, while I'
m updating the page anyway?  :-)

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