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On 03 Mar 2011, at 20:08 , Padraic Brown wrote: > 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 suppose I might try to claim that there had "once upon a time" been Greek, and loans entered in that "once upon a time", but since then Greek had become extinct and all record of it lost .... :) Of course, this being an imaginary conlanging situation, it would be difficult to then explain why I couldn't say what this "lost Greek" language looked like! ;) Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/