Re: Star Names (was; Re; Back!)

Herman Miller wrote:
> And I've already "borrowed" the Jarrda word for butterfly into Tirelat,=
 as
> "iunti" [jundi]. Actually, the Tirelat "c" would have been a better
> equivalent for the Jarrda "j", but I bent the rules to avoid an unfortu=
nate
> visual similarity to an inappropriate English word.
That reminds me of in my first conlang, I changed the nominative
singular androgynous ending of one of the paradigms from -=FAk to -=FAm.=20
The plural was -=FA, and I had had a name T'kif=FA (/t@ki'fV/) for a peop=
le,
and I didn't want the singular to be T'kif=FAk.  :-)

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speke no Frenshe ... And then at last a nother sayd that he woulde haue
hadde eyren: then the goode wyf sayd that she vnderstood hym wel." --
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