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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Jan van Steenbergen" <ijzeren_jan@y...> wrote: > > OK, here we go. It's 3am and I've just spent seven hours > > at the academic ball, but there's always time for > > conlanging, right? =D > > Academic ball? Is that something with robes and smokings and the > like? Did you have any success? www.polyball.ch It's a decorated ball with 10'000 participants, taking place in the main building of my institute of technology. I did wear a dress jacket, but the matching trousers didn't fit me anymore (shame on me...), so I had to go with my concert jeans instead. I hope nobody noticed the blacks were slightly different. =P What do you consider "success" at a ball? We had fun, got to dance a lot, and drove the dessert buffet into ruin. ;-) > Not exactly a translation exercise; I've had them for a long time. > For súch a long time even, that I wonder if two of them shouldn't > actually be changed: Although mine are merely a night old, I think I'll have to change two of them (incidentally, the same two as you): _Domenicus_ oughta become |Doweingu| [dA'veNg] according to my as of yet unwritten GMP, while _Mercúrii Dies_ might rather end up as |Guerdsé|. I've also contemplated getting rid of the e-class noun ending, replacing it with indeclinable |-ei|, which wouldn't attract stress... so it would become |Lundsei| ['lundze] rather than |Lundsé| [,lun'dze:]. I find it more sensible to place the stress on the information- bearing part of the word... but then, French officially has the stress on the -di as well. Then again, Spanish and Italian don't... -- Christian Thalmann