From: Adam Walker (dreamertwo@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed May 01 2002 - 14:05:50 EST
>From: "Barry Garcia" <barry_garcia@csumb.edu>
>Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:21:46 -0700
>
>romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com writes:
> >So I'd get stuff like:
> >
> >QUATTRO > patro
> >QUANDO > pando
> >QUALE > pale
> >QUINDECIM > findeche
> >CINQUE > chinfe
> >AEQUALE > ebale
> >AQUA > aba
> >LINGUA > linba > limba or linda
> >SANGUE > sanve
> >QUETARE > fedare
> >QUI > fi
> >QUAERO > fero
> >ANTIGUA > antiba
> >
> >Some of these invoke voicing rules. I like. What say you guys?
>
>Oooh, i like this a lot! It's very nice too. And if you choose "limba" it
>would trick some who know into thinking it's related to Rumanian :) (of
>course you could go with "linda". Would be a neat linguistic trick and
>fool Spanish speakers into thinking you mean "beautiful")
>
Yeah, I think this is definitely what C-o is going to do. Yeah, I like the
"linda" ambiguity. It could make for some nice poetic twists since linda
*could* be the word for beautiful in C-o, too. Where does linda come from?
Beautiful seems to come from a lot of different sources in Romance.
Adam
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