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It is easy to construct a self-segmenting engelang, but the real snag is how to cope with names (etc., e.g. borrowings) where one wants to minimize distortion of the original form of the name. I'd be interested to hear people's ideas on possible solutions. Oh -- and a further criterion: concision is a desideratum, so the question is: What's a good way to handle names in a self-segmenting engelang that constitutes an optimal balance between (a) preserving self-segmentation, (b) distorting the original name as little as possible, and (c) concision. --And.