Re: Trademarks

aniye Yoon Ha Lee:

> On Thursday, December 6, 2001, at 01:44 , Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
>
> > Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> wrote:
> >
> >> <laugh>  Hey, at least you *have* a trademark.  I think my only
> >> trademarks
> >> are general disorganization, a fondness so far for 3's, and
> >> dull-as-dust phonologies
> >
> > Well, I also don't much of a trademark except front rounded vowels,
> > which I have in Germanech and Nur-ellen, and plan to have in the
> > protolanguage and the sister languages of Nur-ellen as well,
> > simply because I *love* them.  As long as I have been fiddling
> > with languages, I always found languages with only /a e i o u/
> > and no /"o y/ lacking something.  They are my favourite phonemes!
> > (I recently also developed a taste for voiceless liquids like those
> > of Welsh and Brithenig, though.)  Another trademark is that I spell
> > /j/ as <j>; <y> is /y/ to me, and nothing else.
> >
> :-)  I'm quite fond of /"o/ too, though it took me years to be able to
> produce it (I approximated using /e/ or /ej/ like any other stoopid
> American <sigh>).  I would love to *hear* what Welsh sounds like.  Years
> of reading fantasy with Welsh names and unhelpful appendices with equally
> unhelpful pronunciation guides have left me rather frustrated...someday I
> mean to collect lots and *lots* of language tapes.  <G>
[snippage]

go here for WELSH:

http://wri.cymru.net/

It's got some Welsh language stories.

:)

Elliott