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Re: [romconlang] What affords have been made to replace greek words?

--- On Thu, 3/3/11, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea@hidden.email> wrote:

>I suppose the approach one takes to this might depend on the context. For 
>example, my conlangs exist in an imaginary environment that lacks Greek --
>so, clearly, it would be difficult to justify Greek loanwords, and I need 
>some other solution.

Yeah. Absent a language, I don't see how you can have loans from that
nonexistent language!

I've been working lately on Lucarian (http://www.frathwiki.com/Lucarian),
and it's got loads of Greek loans, mostly religious, spiritual and
philosophical words.

Padraic