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Akkademia is a great name.

by not2b 2y ago

mdp2021 2y ago
It seems like a lousy name - a monstrosity -, confusing unrelated terms (greek Academos and the city of Agad, of unclear origin).
- flobosg 2y ago
  > Television? The word is half Greek and half Latin. No good will come of this device. ―C. P. Scott
  - xanderlewis 2y ago
    ‘Homosexuality’ is similarly an abomination: first part’s Greek; second part’s Latin.
    - mdp2021 2y ago
      Condemned through eterogeny. Very remarkable circle.
  - Terr_ 2y ago
    > half Greek and half Latin For your amusement: What a physics textbook might look like without borrowing words from French, Greek, or Latin. [0] Such as isotopes that are unstable: > Most samesteads of every firststuff are unabiding. Their kernels break up, each at its own speed. This speed is written as the half-life, which is how long it takes half of any deal of the samestead thus to shift itself. The doing is known as lightrotting. It may happen fast or slowly, and in any of sundry ways, offhanging on the makeup of the kernel. A kernel may spit out two firstbits with two neitherbits, that is, a sunstuff kernel, thus leaping two steads back in the roundaround board and four weights back in heaviness. It may give off a bernstonebit from a neitherbit, which thereby becomes a firstbit and thrusts the uncleft one stead up in the board while keeping the same weight. It may give off a forwardbit, which is a mote with the same weight as a bernstonebit but a forward lading, and thereby spring one stead down in the board while keeping the same weight. Often, too, a mote is given off with neither lading nor heaviness, called the weeneitherbit. In much lightrotting, a mote of light with most short wavelength comes out as well. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding
- not2b 2y ago
  We are speaking a language that is a similar monstrosity, borrowing both words and structure from so many other languages, pronouncing the vowels differently from everyone else because of the Great Vowel Shift, never having a spelling reform so you have to know where a word came from to know how to spell it. So I am cool with weird hybrid words that mash together concepts from multiple languages to make puns. I speak the wrong language to be a purist.
  - mdp2021 2y ago
    No, there are better ways and worse ways to use more distant languages for the development of this one: this Language is very far from being something that could be reduced to cheap puns. «Hybrid words that mash together concepts from multiple languages» - which is very fine - are not necessarily cheap puns (which the superficial similarity of sounds easily engenders). But anyway, that a coined word suffer from transplant rejection is "not the end of the world" - provided it remains a proper name for a specific item, a brand.

Akkademia is a great name.

by not2b 2y ago

Akkademia is a great name.

mdp2021 2y ago

It seems like a lousy name - a monstrosity -, confusing unrelated terms (greek Academos and the city of Agad, of unclear origin).

flobosg 2y ago
> Television? The word is half Greek and half Latin. No good will come of this device. ―C. P. Scott
- xanderlewis 2y ago
  ‘Homosexuality’ is similarly an abomination: first part’s Greek; second part’s Latin.
  - mdp2021 2y ago
    Condemned through eterogeny. Very remarkable circle.
- Terr_ 2y ago
  > half Greek and half Latin For your amusement: What a physics textbook might look like without borrowing words from French, Greek, or Latin. [0] Such as isotopes that are unstable: > Most samesteads of every firststuff are unabiding. Their kernels break up, each at its own speed. This speed is written as the half-life, which is how long it takes half of any deal of the samestead thus to shift itself. The doing is known as lightrotting. It may happen fast or slowly, and in any of sundry ways, offhanging on the makeup of the kernel. A kernel may spit out two firstbits with two neitherbits, that is, a sunstuff kernel, thus leaping two steads back in the roundaround board and four weights back in heaviness. It may give off a bernstonebit from a neitherbit, which thereby becomes a firstbit and thrusts the uncleft one stead up in the board while keeping the same weight. It may give off a forwardbit, which is a mote with the same weight as a bernstonebit but a forward lading, and thereby spring one stead down in the board while keeping the same weight. Often, too, a mote is given off with neither lading nor heaviness, called the weeneitherbit. In much lightrotting, a mote of light with most short wavelength comes out as well. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding
not2b 2y ago
We are speaking a language that is a similar monstrosity, borrowing both words and structure from so many other languages, pronouncing the vowels differently from everyone else because of the Great Vowel Shift, never having a spelling reform so you have to know where a word came from to know how to spell it. So I am cool with weird hybrid words that mash together concepts from multiple languages to make puns. I speak the wrong language to be a purist.
- mdp2021 2y ago
  No, there are better ways and worse ways to use more distant languages for the development of this one: this Language is very far from being something that could be reduced to cheap puns. «Hybrid words that mash together concepts from multiple languages» - which is very fine - are not necessarily cheap puns (which the superficial similarity of sounds easily engenders). But anyway, that a coined word suffer from transplant rejection is "not the end of the world" - provided it remains a proper name for a specific item, a brand.