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Re: YAC: Widse -- a conlang based on Ygyde

From:Tristan <kesuari@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 28, 2003, 3:56
Christophe Grandsire wrote:

>En réponse à Tristan <kesuari@...>: > > >>You realise what this means, don't you? I'm really am going to have to >>come up with something new, but to do that, I'll need to find out all >>things old, which'll require a new thread! Muahaha! >> >> >Go ahead! Those threads are always a goldmine of information :)) . >
Being a slack one, it's already been done for me.
>>Well, that'll involve making the clusters; Ygyde wasn't very helpful >>in >>that respect. >> >> >High vowels often disappear between consonants, if that may help :) . >
Oh, thankyou! /me pulls out his knife labelled 'high vowels' and points it menacingly in the direction of Ygyde.
>> But I need to make 'em anyway... (Anyone feel like an > > >>onset like /rtfl/? >> >> >Yep! I love it!!! >
But I'm thinking I'll definately need to do a bit of compounding if I'm to get anything remotely similar :)
>>Oh, good. It could've just been a one-off oddity, though I'm not too >>keen on them. I prefer my oddities and irregularities to be normal and >>regular. >> >> >And thus reach only Etabnannery ;))) . But it's nice too. True Maggelity is >extremely difficult to reach anyway :) . >
No, because while the irregularities are normal, there are many options for how the irregularities come about so you don't know which regular irregularities we're talking about; and anyway, didn't you see Padraic's definition of Maggelity? (Etabnannery is regularity hidden behind a facade of apparent irregularity; Maggelity is pure irregularity, or perhaps irregularity sometimes hidden behind a facade of apparent regularity.)
>>I prefer my letters to combine into horrible cominations so it looks >>like you have a silent letter, but really, it's just a part of the >>bigger picture. I mean, the <l> out of <ailu>, it'd suggest something >>more like /2:/ that /eu/. >> >> >Hehe, true silent letters in Maggel are not rare, but more common are seemingly >silent letters which actually have somewhat of an influence :) . >
Which're much more fun.
>>Yes... that makes sense... I think someone who came with an artlang >>left >>because no-one praised (or criticised) them for it... Maybe you're >>right. (Oh, and btw: a critic is someone who criticises or critiques; >>the word you're after is criticism.) >> >> >Yep, sorry. I often confuse them. Damn influence of my mothertongue! :(( >
You'd have even more fun considering the word critique, I imagine ;P
>>I dunno. Is that particularly Dadaish? Wouldn't Post-Modern be a >>better >>description? >> >> >What's the difference? ;))) >
I wouldn't know. What's the difference between Romantic and Classical?
>[snip extremely interesting story] > > >>One more time, slowly for the man in the back: >>/i IdZagu/ > /i:J\aGu/ > /i:J\awu/ > /@iJ\aM\u/ *regularisation!* >>/@iJ\oM\u/ > /r\ioM\o/ > /r\iM\o:/. >> >>Pesky little approximates. >> >> >OK, when my eyes stop rolling I'll tell you what I think of it ;))))) . >
I should point out that at the moment of regularisation, the nominative form (which it gets regularised to) is sitting at something like /CouM\/ or /Cou/. But do say what you think of it if your eyes stop rolling. Tristan. http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies - What's on at your local cinema?

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