Re: Rhyming Conlangs
| From: | Irina Rempt <irina@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 9, 2001, 7:57 |
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On Tuesday 09 October 2001 05:44, Jim Grossmann wrote:
> Making rhymes: Though I know of one conlanger who used Word Net
> to generate an artificial lexicon of hundreds of thousands of
> words, most artificial vocabularies tend to be smaller than natural
> ones, and this can create fewer opportunities for words to rhyme by
> conincidence.
Also, some languages have, for grammatical reasons, only a very
restricted set of endings that can rhyme. Valdyan suffers from that,
because it's an inflected language with SOV word order, putting the
inflected finite verb at the end of the sentence more often than not.
Valdyan popular poetry tends to go aaaa or aaba:
Hanleni halsen varyenan laynat
Daysinen verein idanla le listat
Havien hinla laziena forat
Culea rachleni arlea a chalat?
(for a complete breakdown of this, see the Starlings' Song web page,
www.valdyas.org/irina/valdyas/taal/hanleni_halsen/index.html)
Irina
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Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastynay.
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