Re: New conlang?

On Sunday, December 7, 2003, at 04:11 PM, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

> At 07:07 7.12.2003, Ray Brown wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, December 6, 2003, at 12:54 PM, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
>>
>> At 14:20 5.12.2003, paul-bennett wrote:
>>
>> >On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 06:42:37 -0500 John Cowan <cowan@...>
>>
>> wrote.
>> ...snip...
>> Now _ywm fegghig_ is clearly an attempt at spelling
>> [@wm fE(d)ZgI(d)Z] in Inglisc orthography,
>>
>> Really?  No one seems to have spotted so far that it conforms to the
>> orthography of BrScA and is pronounced: /aj"awma "fedigi "higi/
>
> Except that _ywm_ is hardly a well-formed BrScA word, being VVC.
It's a compound + :)

>
>> But as I've only so far discovered the phonology & orthography of BrScA,
>> its meaning still remains a mystery.
>
> Maybe it (or rather the 'corrected' _jwm fegghig_) is
> thelong-sought name of the lang! :)  (I'm not really
> suggesting that; rather you should arbitrarily
> assign a CVC sequence to be the name of the lang!)
Yep - the question has always been:"Is it monorphemic (hence CVC) or
or dimorphemic (hence CVCCVC)?"

Of course if it is dimorphemic, what does each morpheme mean?

>> It seems odd that someone else has discovered more about BrScA than I
>> have!
>> Maybe the perfect Form of BrScA is really there in some Platonic world of
>> true Forms  :))
>
> I always claimed that BrScA is an invention of true genius.
> If you want to ascribe that genius to a higher intelligence
> rather than to yourself, then be my guest by all means! ;)
Hm - is BrScB the work of some malevolent spirit luring me away
from the work of this higher genius?   ;)

Ray
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