Re: Japanese (was an ol Conlang Post: "Borrowing Words")
| From: | Muke Tever <hotblack@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 25, 2003, 5:41 |
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On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:45:23 EST, J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> wrote:
> In a message dated 2003:12:23 08:13:53 AM, hotblack@FRATH.NET writes:
>> Basically you take the kanji for woman, x, and dismantle it into pieces:
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>> the hiragana x |ku| +
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>> the katakana x |no| +
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>> the kanji x |ichi| ('one'),
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>> thus xxx = kunoichi.
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>> Any conlangs do stuff like *that*?
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> I do believe Dublex (langmaker.com) does just that:
I remember Dublex :x) I meant, though, to refer specifically to the
formation of lexemes by the decomposition of glyphs not standardly
decomposable.
*Muke!
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