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And Rosta <arosta@hidden.email> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Bracketing will rate you an A+ for both (a) and (b), and something less
for (c). For example, in Katanda, the proper name "Joe Q. Schmoe" can
be rendered as "Ka<Joe Q. Schmoe>byo", where prefix "ka" indicates a
proper name, the left and right arrows are the brackets, and "byo"
indicates that the word is the name of a person (as opposed to country,
river, corporation, etc).
For speech applications, you'll need some way of representing the
brackets. However, even so, the speech-analyzer is likely to have
problems with whatever appears between the brackets since it won't
conform with the self-segregation rules.
For common proper names, you can assign a word that conforms to the
self-segregation rules. For example, the Katanda word for "France" is
"Kafuransi", and is not bracketed.
For more details, check out:
http://www.srv.net/~ram/lexical_semantics.html#S24_0
Regards,
Rick Morneau
http://www.srv.net/~ram
http://www.eskimo.com/~ram