Re: maggelity and Etabnannery

En réponse à Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>:

> Vek'"Langmaker2 list" kek emaelivpar Padraic Brown:
> >there is a word, maggelity, that
> >means something like "fearsome and terrifying
> >irregularity allowed to run rampant within a
> >conlang, such that regularity is in fact an
> >irregular feature of the language".
>
> Beautiful definition, Padraic!
Indeed!!! :))

  I felt it should be shared with the
> Conlang
> community, where there may be more appreciation for the nuances in the
> definion of maggelity.  :)
>
Hehe, as I see it the term is now known in other lists too! (and not only off-
springs of Conlang!) I love that! Let's make the use of the word spread as much
as possible, until it finds a well-deserved place in the dictionary ;)))) .

Christophe.

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