Re: Linguistic Flavor

In a message dated 6/8/01 6:47:23 PM, mkinjubhy@YAHOO.COM writes:

<< through a quient ancient forest, more than babbling brooks and singing
birds.
Am I just nuts? >>

    I suggest a lot of vowels and dipthongs with few consonants.  Those
consonants you do have (again, in my opinion) would be mainly fricatives
(non-retroflex--in fact, no flaps or trills at all), all unvoiced, and if you
need a stop, just t p and k.  I'm thinking lots of [s], [S], [f], [T] maybe
even [tS].  But the highlight of the language is the vowels.  The consonants
are just the things you have to suffer through to get to the long, sweet
vowels.  This is what I think up when I see the words "walk through a quiet,
ancient forest".  Of course, you just need one person to say they think of
the totally opposite thing, and you'll see the problem in asking advice for
"linguistic flavor".  ~:)

-David