Heh. One of my early scifi settings included a culture that had last names formatted in the style of Prefix-Apostrophe-Suffix, but it was indicating a dropped syllable, since the prefix was a standard reduction of the genitive form of "family". (That said, once I learned more about linguistics, this prior transcription somehow morphed into "That annoying method those people over there used to represent our language, when a more accurate rendition would be..." Ah, baby linguistics.)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2011-11-20 04:32 pm (UTC)