Loan Words (was: Stress marking (was: Re: CONLANG Digest - 14 Oct2000(maglangs plea!))

Nik Taylor wrote:

>Karen Robinson wrote:
>> Well, the English speakers can hardly complain - I studied Christopher
>> Columbus in school, not Cristoforo Colombo.  (Is that the correct
>> spelling?)
>
>Colón.  But actually, Christopher Columbus is a *Latinized*, not
>Anglicized, form.>
    And Cristóbal, at that; if he was in fact Genoese, then the Spanish form
is an adaptation too.......

>ObConlang: How receptive are your conlangs to borrowings?  Utakassí
>generally prefers calques to loans, altho it wasn't always like that.
>Proto-Kassi-Plia borrowed a *lot* of foreign words, including the
>numbers 7-12.>
Kash at one time borrowed, or had forced upon it, a lot of
scientific/technical vocabulary from Gwr.  But that was a long time ago, and
such terms are completely acclimated now.  The average school-child is not
aware, until told, that words like /luneyu/ 'oxygen', /pineyu/ 'hydrogen',
/yawundu/ 'petroleum' are < Gwr.  They do wonder why all the gaseous
elements end in -neyu (Gwr. næw 'air').  So far the only loans in Gwr < Kash
are the numbers 8 (faN < fanu) and 9 (saN < sana), occasioned by the change
from base-8 to decimal.