Re: Conlang in-jokes.

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:13:23 +0200, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
>
> Some days ago, I built a little joke into Meghean which I thought pretty
> neat; the  word _patha_ "disembodied spirit" becomes in the definite
> accusative plural _phanto_, which of course has a more than accidental
> similarity to "phantom".
>
> (The plural formation by infix is somewhat irregular; you'd expect
> **_phathano_. The same pattern is seen in _guthu_ "death", pl _gunt_.)
>
>Anyone else have something similar to share?
>
>                                                 Andreas
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I have a bunch for 'Yemls, all intentional, but will have to look them up
later. I've been without electricidad for almost 72 hours, and have been
having some modem problems.

Jfl

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