Re: an RPG conlang: Kaendoran (not mine!)

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

>http://wol.s5.com/wol_language_pronunciation.html
>
>Opinions, anyone?  Just curious to see "real" conlangers' impressions.
>Someone sent my co-GM and me this a link to this (apparently)
>up-and-coming RPG, and since there was a language section, it was one of
>the first things I hit....>
>I'm not sure about the phonology, but their transliteration looked sort
>of like a hash designed to make the thing more "exotic," rather than very
>useful or consistent.  <shrug>
It seems consistent, within their parameters, but unnecessarily complex to
my view, and a little ad-hoc-- e.g. unmotivated vowel pronunciations after
certain letters.....?  On the whole, its look struck me as quite Old
Englishy, or Tolkienish perhaps.  The lexicon suggests it's meant to do
word-for-word translations from Engl.   The lexicon also suggested that
someone was less than inventive-- several words look like rearrangements of
the English letters.

 OTOH, they actually *bothered* with
>something resembling a world-language, so what can I say?>
My sentiment exactly ;-)

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