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Re: Xposting Re: Missing langs? (was: Re: Conlang T-shirt) "Your language here..."

From:Charles <catty@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 20, 1999, 1:31
Jay Bowks wrote:

> >Maybe "loc" is better than "situ", maybe not.
> Maybe, but the problem with "loc" is that to me it > reminds me of Spanish "loco"... and that of course > makes it for a wacko reading :-)
Yes, exactly. A good reason to use very different, distinctive orthography or accents or something in a conlang, to minimize such coincidental resemblances, assuming they are unwanted. Europanto probably welcomes them.