OT: Whee! [was Re: New language: Tama-i]

H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:56:12AM -0400, J Y S Czhang wrote:
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>>In a message dated 2003:10:01 07:17:45 PM, hsteoh@QUICKFUR.ATH.CX writes:
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>>>What do fellow conlangers think of Tama-i? Is it a worthy successor to
>>>its Ebisedian heritage? :-)
>>
>>Yepyep. Very intriguin' sensible contrast to Ebisedian.
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> Intriguing, yes. Contrast, yes. Sensible??? :-P Wait till you see the
> insane behaviour of pronouns as clitics... (oh, and btw, the pronouns
> still do not distinguish between 2nd and 3rd person. And now that they
> sometimes behave like clitics, and are horribly similar to each other,
> it's becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of who's being referred
> to by what...)
>
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>>And, yeah, it "sounds 'smoother' " and "has a certain suave flavor...".
>>Mayhaps you can make it somewhat like a post-creole mesolect descended
>>from Ebisedian, huh? huh?
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> [snip]
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> Don't know about that... but one feature of Tama-i which I thought be
> interest our venerable Hanuman Zhang is the new pronunciation for _vyy'i_,
> which is now written _vii'_ and pronounced ["wi:]. So the old "spiral off"
> expletive now sounds like "let's wheeeee!" ;-)
That reminds me of this:
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/weeee.php