Re: Conlang names?

In a message dated 11/10/2007 3:17:47 AM Central Standard Time, 
ray@CAROLANDRAY.PLUS.COM writes:


> > Names in Saweli are simply borrowed intact in whatever natlang form they 
> > occur.  E.g., France is simply "mo{French}sa", where "mo-" is the 
> classifier for 
> > specific, named countries or regions; "-s" is the part-of-speech marker 
> for 
> > (closed) nouns, and "-a" marks the word as a name.  "French" could as 
> easily have 
> > been "français" or "France", but its value is not important at the moment. 
>  
> 
> Why not? At least _français+ or _France_ are French. Why is it the 
> _English_ form that is borrowed? Or is any natlang form? Could France, 
> e.g. be "mo{Francia}sa", "mo{Frankreich}sa", "ma{Gallia}sa" etc.?
> 
The form of the name is unimportant precisely because it can be anything, 
including all that you mentioned.  I don't have a reasonable way to decide what 
the name should be in Saweli other than to choose ease for my own use.  That 
means English.  I could use the native for all the countries, but I only have a 
couple of countries named so far, and what about multi-language areas, such as 
Africa?  
No, for now I will use English.  At least this way I'm reminded by the 
English that I don't have a real equivalent for such words yet.

I could also make several variants to be complete equivalent, so that 
mo{French}sa = mo{französisch}sa = mo{francuzskij}sa = ...
And in fact, such variants are already equal, just not realized.

Unless you happen to know of a way to characterize the countries of the world 
using only the Saweli modifiers?

stevo   </HTML>

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