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Re: An incongruent orthography: Maggel

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, April 8, 2002, 6:08
En réponse à Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> > (Snip lots of wild and crazy stuff) >
:)) I like this description. Fits perfectly.
> > Aha! The secret of English orthography.
Yep, but going through where English stops in the middle of the trip :)) .
> > A very amusing and utterly perverse orthography. :-))) I suppose one > could > get used to it...... >
Well, I do remember that at some point I could read it approximately well (though I lost the few sentences I had written in. I only have my grammatical notes :(( ).
> I am reminded of young Frankenstein discovering his father's > notes.......Revive it at your peril :-)))) (But why not??) >
Hehe, I doubt Maggel is gonna ask me to create a companion for it :)) . But I do think I'm gonna revive it. By the way, how would an English speaker pronounce the word "Maggel"? ['mAgl=]? Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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