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Re: maggelish spelling reform (wasRe: english spelling reform)

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, October 17, 2002, 19:33
En réponse à J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>:

> > ::mock panic:: EEK! Maggel attack... >
LOL, Maggel as the Hatilla of languages ;)))) .
> > ::impressed with CG's lingua-manglin' Maggel --- head-spinnin' with > its > utter strangeness:: Talk about a "mutant" English!!!! >
English as it *should* be, delivered from the tyranny of etymology and "regularity" ;)))) .
> > Why not??? Besides I highly doubt you can resist, hehe... >
True, but it took me two hours to write it and one to check it. Never again...
> > LMAO... if they descended directly from Pict-ish like people and > were > never really "civilized" totally, I would imagine they would have some > strange aesthetics. >
Actually I'd say they have very fine aesthetics. They just have *different* aesthetics ;))) . I don't imagine Christianity or any other religion of the Book would have ever reached them (they probably would have eaten the missionaries :))) ).
> > Naturally. Like the Maggel ironwork and jewelry, very > ornate-but-naturalistic in comparision to any Roman alphabet language > ;) >
Well, the Maggel alphabet is a subset of the Latin alphabet in Uncial form. But they developped thousands of ligatures which sometimes connect five letters into an unrecognisable squiggle :)) . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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