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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> wrote: > Such impression may, of course, be superficial. I have to admit that > I know neither Italian nor Spanish, so I can judge this only from a > very basic impression I have of both languages. If you want to be > sure, you should ask a few Italian and Spaniard for their impression. The Italians all thought it was easy, and one said it could be a dialect of Italian (+1 for Italian-seeming, I guess). I think our only native Spaniard is Catalan, but he didn't comment, I don't believe. > > All I got was a bunch of "yes I can read that"'s from the Italian > > and French speakers. The French had more trouble with it, though. > > Well, from what I have seen, discussions on bulletin boards tend to > have much less depth than discussions on mailing lists. I don't know > why that is. True, true. But not always. > What is the etymology of "Carune", BTW? The word or the language? The word is from an old conworld I had, which fell apart. The language as a whole is just Spanish or Italian sent through the twisted recesses of my mind.