Re: The beautifulest phonology

On Sunday 24 March 2002 20:19, you wrote:
> En réponse à Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>:
> > a few harsh sounds might add spice to the language  :)
>
> Even Tolkien, who is sometimes accused to have "over-pretty" languages (an
> accusation he gave himself once, so people who do that have to cope with
> the fact that they have the same opinion as the master himself :))) ), had
> /x/ in Quenya (written 'h', and weakened to [h] at the beginning of words).
> So even he was aware of that problem (it's mainly this fact that made me
> realise that he was truly a master in conlanging, despite all he can be
> criticised for).
>
I want to celebrate my return to the world with dropping in a thread
disregarding any previous posts (which I haven't seen)...

I'm not quite sure that I'd think /x/ harsh -- not even in its most
guttural variety. After all, if its speakers can think Arabic mellifluous,
who am I to disagree. I'm partial to the voiceless lateral fricatives, too
:-).

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