You can do your research and still put together something that is nonsense. Some of my friends (who shall remain nameless despite the fact that they're all here on LJ) tried to name a world "house of blood" in Nahuatl and ended up with "Ezocalco". They had the right roots, but the wrong combining form and didn't realise that "calco" was a locative ("in the house") rather than an nominative form. It took me some research of my own to discover that the correct form would be "Ezcalli". If you haven't worked with a wide variety of languages (and most people I know are too busy learning about other things, like science and history), you won't even know what pitfalls to be on the lookout for when you dabble in an unfamiliar one.
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momijizukamori
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Date: 2008-02-26 05:53 pm (UTC)