Re: Plastic Surgery on a Conlang

> En réponse à Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>:
> Since you allow (T)(S)V(C), |koutre| would be possible, wouldn't it? And IIRC
> it's |ou| which is pronounced as [o:] (you see, I followed your previous
> mails :)) ).
Indeed, |kowtre| (=coutre= in popular transcription) would be
possible.  It would have to be pronounced /ow/, though.

The post you are referring to was about a completely new language
project with the provisional working title Caelva /"kElva/, which is
going for a Celtic kind of aesthetics with some unconventional
elements (including my beloved /Z/).  =)

Little tidbit: sív /Si:v/ "to live", an sív /andZi:v/ "he lives".

The project has lost its initial impetus, which was motivated by my
aesthetic displeasure with Obrenje, which in turn has been alleviated
by my "plastic surgery".

Some phonetic stuff on Caelva is available at my site.  I've also
developed a table of vector inflections, which I might add too.  A
vector is an auxiliary verb that carries all inflections for persons
and tenses.  Besides the standard vector, which can be translated as
"do", "be" or even "go", there are also other for negation, for
modal verbs, and for two select full verbs "give" and "have", which in
turn can be used for fixed expressions.

     http://catharsis.netpeople.ch/langmaking/caelva.htm


> Well, I'm still there :) . See, it doesn't drive people away (at least not me,
> but it's difficult to drive me away even if you want it :)) ).
>
> Christophe.

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