Re: "Conlanging" in Greek (Re: "conlanger" en Franais?)

At 2:34 pm -0500 25/4/00, Daniel A. Wier wrote:
>Hey, I heard a Greek term for "invention of languages", and part of it
>involved the word _glossa_.  Oh for the life of me, why can't I remember it?
>I want to say it's _glossagenesis_ or something like that...
>
Glossopoesis  (five syllables, roughly [glOs@p@'i:sIs] in English)
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At 2:43 pm -0500 25/4/00, Patrick Dunn wrote:
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>Glossopoesia?
The actual Greek word would end in -sis.  '-poesia' is, I guess, a
Latinized back-formation from French 'poésie' or English 'poesy'.

A Chinese girl in one of my classes a few years years back used 'Poesia' as
her 'western name' (her Chinese name meant "Autumn Fragrance"), but
insisted on its being pronounced ['pOIzi@].

Ray.




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