En réponse à Danny Wier <dawier@...>:
> First, who here became a conlanger of sorts in childhood by making up
> words? (I
> used to annoy my piano teacher by referring to the treble clef as a
> "tref" --
> which is incidentally very similar to the word in Hebrew for a
> non-kosher food
> item.)
>
Not that I remember :(( . I really started conlanging suddenly, there has been
no gradation :) .
> Second, does anyone here have a fascination with reading/writing
> things
> backwards?
Depending on the language, I can find it interesting :)) . But it never
inspired me (consciously at least).
I'm asking because I've come up with inspirations for words
> by just
> writing things backwards, in English or otherwise. Or I'd discover
> things like
> "think" being *kniht, and _cniht_ is "boy" in Old English isn't it?
>
It looks more to me like an old orthography of "knight" (though I may be
influenced by Quenya where "ht" is /xt/ :)) ). Did "knight" ever mean "boy" in
Old English?
Christophe.
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