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Re: The beautifulest phonology

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 20, 2002, 19:38
Raymond Brown scripsit:

> The Arabic script is IMO more beautiful than any of the above; but not > well-suited to non-Semeitic languages.
Actually, it has problems even with those. The main difficulty with Arabiform script is the paucity of vowels -- even worse than Roman.
> Yep - if I were designing an artlang, I'd almost certainly include clicks. > But I'm not sure that I'd class the as 'beautiful'; so if it's beauty, as > Frank said, I don't think I can include them. > > But then, although much art has beauty, I don't think great necessarily has > it, e.g. Guernica ;)
Clicks and Guernica have that beauty that Blake said exuberance is. -- John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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