Re: *mumble* *grumble* sound changes *mutter*

Hi!

Paul Bennett writes:
>...
> So, I'm notating the sound changes I have been using for Thagojian. I
> have  about 5KB so far, which seemed quite nifty, until I looked at
> Thrjotran's  50KB file.
>
> The more I look at the results, the less satisfied I am that they
> plausibly represent an IE language at around 1000CE, when compared to
> the  difference between PIE and (e.g.) Old English, or even Lithuanian.
You mean it's still too closely related to PIE?

> There is going to me a *major* set of updates. Be it noted that the
> language formerly known as Thagojian should henceforth be known as
> Classical Thagojian (Version 1.0). I guess I need to start paying
> attention to vowel length and stress placement in PIE, as well as
> learning  more about the nominal and verbal stems, and the sound
> changes in both  Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic. Not to mention the
> sound changes in Coptic  and Hebrew. Ach y fi.
In a (remote) future version of the script, stress will probably be
directly supported.  Benct had to do some complicated stuff, too, to
handle stress, I think.  I did not need it, since stress is always on
the first syllable in my file, but I did put it onto my TODO list.

> This will be no small undertaking, I fear...
But hopefully, it's fun! :-)

And please show us results as soon as you think you have something
presentable. :-)

**Henrik

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