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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