Re: "Roumant", or maybe Narbonósc. Part VII

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Interesting. In Spanish, novio/novia means "fiance(e)", right? Nice
>semantic
>shift :) .
Well, the idea for that comes from the fact that in Spanish classes here,
i've been taught that it also has the meaning of boyfriend/girlfriend. An
alternate for novio/novia in Spanish for fiancee, is prometido/a, which
comes from prometer - to promise. So, a prometido/a is one who is promised
to you (my translation).

Montreiano also has this distinction, with "prometio/a" being the more
used/formal term for fiance(e), and nouio/a for boyfriend/girlfriend (BUT,
nouio/a can be used for fiance(e))

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>ó It works too! Funny that two different codes lead to the same letter...
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Yeah, i was surprised to find out there was another code. I found the one
I did by just hitting random numbers (i found a neat cross character:
alt0134 - †, and what looks like a long s: alt0131- ƒ)
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>You're absolutely right now that I think about it. So the English
>translation of
>Narbonósc will be Narbonese, it's much nicer :) .
You're welcome :).
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