Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 6, 2003, 10:38 |
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En réponse à Nik Taylor :
>Tennou, emperor, is written with the kanji for "heaven emperor", while
>ten'ousei is written with "heaven king star", a calque of sorts, as
>Uranus was the God of the Heavens. :-) Neptune is Kaiousei "Sea King
>Star" and Pluto Meiousei "Hell King Star"
I know. It helps to be a Sailor Moon fan! ;))) (in Sailor Moon, Sailor
Uranus is called Ten'ou Haruka, Sailor Neptune is Kaiou Michiru, and Sailor
Pluto is Meiou Setsuna :) ).
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.
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