En réponse à Tristan <kesuari@...>:
> >
> > Which quickly retracts to Ygde in order to not have to feel the blade
> ;))) .
>
> It'll still suffer the knife labelled 'initial vowels', not to mention
> the sandpaper specifically for voiced fricatives...
LOL!! ;)))
really, if I'm not
> careful, I'll have nothing left but a @ for the name of the
> language...
>
Hey, I have a language called O, so what's the problem? ;))))))) And there's at
least one language called E, as seen in the Ethnologue:
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=EEE :)))) .
>
> But that's only because you're pure evil.
Am I? <showing pure and innocent Bambi-like eyes> ;))))
But then again, who isn't?
> Muahaha!
>
<Mwahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)))))>
>
> Could be, though I thought the early twenties were too early to be
> post-modern? (At least architecturally, but that's the only thing I have
> a vague idea about with this whole subject because you see ugly things
> like Jeff Shed (correctly the Melbourne Exhibition Centre, I think. It
> looks like a post-modern rendition of former Victorian Premier Jeff
> Kennet's hair. As a *building*).
>
LOL :))
>
> But can I tell you, a more-than-vague but less-than-perfect idea in a
> head is very hard to get onto paper, especially with an ever-changing
> target (do I want voiced stops or not? retroflex consonants? to get rid
> of these vowels?)... All I know is that i want a vowel-, diphthong- and
> glide-rich language with horrible onsets that's totally irregular, but
> I'm not sure how to reconcile the first two, given what I've got to work
> with... Maybe I have to make two languages which come together and
> become a creole?
Or make new Ygyde compounds scraping the limitation in number of syllables,
allowing you more clusters when you use your knifes ;)))) .
>
> Thanks. And of course Maggel is plausible: haven't you seen the awful
> (or maybe just aweful) things some natlangs do to themselves??
True enough. I always think of Tibetan for instance ;))) .
Anything
> you can think up, some natlang out there's already thought of and done
> it ten-times worse!
>
I long to see a natlang ten times as bad as Maggel ;))))))) .
Christophe.
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