----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristan McLeay" <zsau@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: Polysynthetic Languages
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> > En réponse à Christian Thalmann :
> >
> >
> > >So "est" is the 1sg form nowadays? ;-)
> >
> > LOL, not only a mistake of person, but a mistake of verb! The correct
form
> > should be "ai" of course. That's what you get with homophones and
somebody
> > who doesn't pay attention to what he's writing :))) . And not using
French
> > often lately probably doesn't help ;)) .
>
> English, French, Swedish etc. never cease to amaze me with how evil their
> orthographies can be. It'd be a sick and twisted person that designed an
> orthography that bad. But then, we're the best kind, aren't we? :)
I just had a thought - inverse-maggelity - It is quite possible to predict
the pronunciation from the spelling, but not the reverse. I suppose this
would be a subcategory of Etabnannery. French and Irish are examples of an
inverse-maggelic orthography.