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Re: [engelang] Self-segmenting words & the treatment of names



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