Talk:Borchennymendi

Graphs
You have quite a number of di-, tri-, quadri-, etc-graphs. I really like this. What was the inspiration for this? It has a sort of Gaelic feel to me. --TheWrittenWord (talk) 14:00, September 19, 2012 (UTC)

The inspiration for the digraphs has not been Gaelic. A long written text - they gradually will appear alongside with the translation of the grammar chapters from Dutch into English - will show this. Due to the average word length Borchennymendi has an entirely diffent 'look'. The consonant digraphs are totally functional because they modify the single consonants according to certain rules. A similar thing is done by the vowel digraphs. It will be explained in the phonotactics section. Borchennymendi and Gaelic (and English!) have only their poor correspondence of letter to sound in common. This is the reason why I have added two examples of the pronunciation in this early phase of work. 178.84.82.162 19:30, September 21, 2012 (UTC)

Long Words
That block of text made up of very long words drew my attention :O It looks so nice, and the sound's not half bad, either ;) 19:51, September 29, 2012 (UTC) ~)  The Elector, Darkness Immaculate 

It is told that in 1947, when the USA president Harry S. Truman visited the kingdom, his attention was also drawn to the long words. King John Mouriough (Ioghadhn Moudhriough, (born 1872, elected 1940, died 1948) replied: "You're right, Mr President. We don't ponder our words; we sell them by the yard". 178.84.82.162 11:22, September 30, 2012 (UTC)

Very fitting xD 11:58, September 30, 2012 (UTC) ~)  The Elector, Darkness Immaculate 

Mr Mouriough (the king and queen of Borchennymi are plainly called Mr and Mrs So-and-so) left many more anecdotes. One of them reveales one of the intracies of the pronunctiation of Borchennymendi: On arriving at Westminster Abbey, where Mr Mouriough attended a solemn choral Evensong in the presence of Clement Attlee, the first thing he did was taking off his shoes at the threshold, while in the churches of Borchennymi this is quite customary. As he noticed the embarrassment he had caused, he solemnly handed them over to the Prime Minister, who gave them to one of the vergers. After the service the newly appointed ‘Gentleman Keeper of the Royal Shoes’, as the humorous king called the official, ushered the company to the exit. Unfortunately, the man had forgotten to take the shoes back with him. When Mouriough was about to leave the church he smiled to the verger and said: ‘I see, they do here as they sing. Psalm 37, the 21st verse: He borroweth, and payeth not again. A marvellous tradition, and so typically British. After all, it’s my fault; if I had listened to my wife, I had brought a ship and some ham ! ’ Then he made a few steps on the pavement without his shoes on, explaining what ‘ shapathsoidhnam’ means: two pairs of shoes.Nilhaeu (talk) 15:54, October 1, 2012 (UTC)