Re: Plastic Surgery on a Conlang

Kristian Thalman sekalge:
<So, the formerly ugly words |getne|, |kcare|, |nokkce| and |kwaq|
will become =gente=, =chare=, =nocse= and =cuang=, or even =noxe=
and =quang=.  It's that nice?  =) >

Yes. However, [ng] = /N/, the nasal stop, which would seem to contradict
your syllable style. Apparently, your syllable style is (T)(S)V(C) now,
though that was unclear to a dolt like me. :)) You say that it's strict,
but it seems a bit lax to me who had such a bad reaction to English and
is only now beginning to heal. (I recoiled into a CV(V) syllable style at
first. It was a while before I allowed even a final consonant.)

I, too, prefer nasal-stop combinations to stop-nasal combinations. The
nasal always tries to become syllabic with me in the latter case. And I
prefer /ko:tr@/ to /kOtra/. Ah, well. Conlanging isn't a hill of beans,
as I found out in the script for Sturnan.

Interesting that [c] represented both /s/ and /h/. You found ways of
keeping the spelling of the original word that I will eventually try to
imitate. But for now, Sturnan hasn't the need.

>Furthermore, my native script writes vowels as diacritics on
>consonants, which would be problematic with double vowels.
I was forced to make a null consonant that, incidentally, doubled as /h/,
because I did the same thing in Sturnan's script. Myself, I do not like
doubled vowels, and my diphthongs have separate symbols.
ai: /___
ei: \/
(Well, sort of. They look better when hand-written.)

And now, after replying to your post, I feel obliged to delete it, since
it concerns Obrenje.

The manic
Chris Wright