Re: [romanceconlang] Sports

From: Christophe Grandsire (christophe.grandsire@free.fr)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 01:18:49 EST


En réponse à Adam Walker :

>Thanks. I have (after 1 hour of googling
>[interspersed with more email]) found that the Spanish
>is Tres in raya and the Italian is simply Tris. I
>still can't find the Portuguese Catalan or Romanian or
>any of the lesser Romlangs, but I think I have enough
>to tell me that I can basically name the game anything
>that makes sense to me since the names in the langs I
>*have* found seem to be prety divergent even when
>centered on a theme like Spanish and Italian.

Yep. It looks to me like it has been named independently in each country.

> Maybe
>I'll call it "uls Aravus ed Idajanus" -- "Arabs and
>Italians".

Nice idea! :) Board games tend to have those kinds of names indeed :) .

>ahem. Thanks. TMI.

LOL.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.



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