Re: Nindic Nominal Morphology

Hm...Nindic has been written in other
orthographies...none of which look very great to me. I
hate "edh" and "thorn", so those are right out for /D/
and /T/. "dh" looks somehow dumb to me, even though
its more logical than "dd". As for "wy", I'm still not
sure if I'd rather have "ui". Same goes for most
"w"'s.  "y"s on their own actually represent /y/, not
the Welsh sound.

 The only other sort of "welsh" thing that I have is
"ll" and "rh" as /K/ and /r./. I admit "lh" would have
been better, and this was actually a spelling at one
time. I just hate somehow "h" after any consonants but
"t" and "r".


 Other than these...I'm not sure how Nindic could be
written otherwise. Unless it's in its native alphabet,
which is quite unlike any others that I've seen..well,
maybe it's like a cross between Glagolitic and Hebrew
maybe.

Elliott :)

--- Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> wrote:

> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Elliott Lash
> <erelion12@Y...> wrote:
>
> > I'm glad that you enjoyed some aspects, even
> though
> > the overall asthetic wasn't to your liking :)
>
> It's not that I don't like the aesthetics (I do, to
> a
> certain degree); IMHO it's just not very
> imaginative...
> Countless Tolkien fans have done the same.  I guess
> all conlangs have parts plagiarized from real
> languages
> (just think of all the romlangs! mine included...);
> the
> spelling is just a particularly conspicuous thing to
> borrow.  Maybe it's just that I particularly like
> making
> up typographical flavor for a conlang.  ;-)
>
>
>
> > Examples:
> >  Nindic: ceil "stream"      New York English:
> "kill"
> >  Nindic: ffaer "flame"      English "Fire"
> >  Hinession (Caer Aldun Standard): fot "foot"
> >                                 : feit "feet"
>
> Coool, that's exactly the kind of thing I intend to
> do
> with Hairo...  give etymologies for Germanic words
> whose
> current etymology is unsatisfactory.  For example, I
> was
> going to have a word |brand| "metal", "weapon" or
> maybe
> even "sword" that would explain the usage of the
> word in
> poetic English.  I chickened out and made |brand|
> mean
> "man", though.  It's about time I changed that.
>
>
> -- Christian Thalmann
>

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