Zengo becomes Dengo
Rick Harrison
and CCVCV) words. It's been bubbling softly on the back burner of my
mind. This morning I woke up absolutely gripped by the urge to change
the project's name.
Lengo might have been my first choice but it's taken by a natlang
spoken on the Solomon Islands. I suppose if I wait a few decades their
Lengo will die out and make the name available for my project, but I
don't want to wait.
Tengo, no good due to interference from Spanish... Bengo, no good
because it reminds me of _benjo_ a Japanese word for toilet... Kengo
sounds nice but apparently it's the name of many people and commercial
products around the world.
Eventually I landed on Dengo. By Jove, Dengo it is!
Dengo has some lovely associations in Nihongo. The Japanese word
_dengon_ means "a message". And possibly the name of this conlang could
be written with the "electricity/lightning" kanji followed by the
"(name-of-a-)language" kanji.
Dana Nutter dejnx nxtxr
> For years I've had this idea for a language based on 5-letter (CVCCV
> and CCVCV) words. It's been bubbling softly on the back burner of my
> mind. This morning I woke up absolutely gripped by the urge to change
> the project's name.
That word shape is very Lojbanic.
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X. Rayburn
<sasxsekR...@nutter.net> wrote:
>> For years I've had this idea for a language based on 5-letter (CVCCV
>> and CCVCV) words. It's been bubbling softly on the back burner of my
>> mind. This morning I woke up absolutely gripped by the urge to change
>> the project's name.
>
>That word shape is very Lojbanic.
Well now let's be fair and give the credit to the first conlanger
fixated on that wordshape, James Cook Brown of Loglan.
Harrison's ruminations on searching for a name reminded me that I
sometimes wish there were a central registry for conlang names,
similar to the databases that enable one to check and see if a web
domain name has been taken or not. But then I think, if such a
registry existed, aggressive people would reserve dozens or hundreds
of names for themselves, more than they really needed or were able to
use.
Dana Nutter dejnx nxtxr
The closest thing to that type of resource is Langmaker.