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Re: more help, this time on sound change

From:Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 8, 2002, 22:57
--I can say this much--whether you have irregular
words is your puppy.  You don't need them if you don't
want them.  However, they do give a more naturalistic
feel.

Dana
Kalinida


--- The RipperDoc <ripperdoc@...> wrote:
> Hi! > I've downloaded the promising sound change program > from zompist.com, and > I've come up with enough rules to form my second > conlang (closely related). > It's a simple thing to apply the sound changes on my > regular word list > (about 500 words), but I wonder if I should do the > sound change with > inflected words? Isn't that what makes grammar > irregular, that sound change > affects some inflections but not all? Am I supposed > to inflect _all_ words? > I also have an other problem with the sound change, > but I guess you can't > help me on that. The problem is that most of my > words doesn't change at all, > but some words are affected by lots of rules and > therefore change quite > much. Is that a realistic approach, that some sounds > change but others > don't? > > /Martin
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