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.
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