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Self-segmenting words & the treatment of names



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.