Re: The beautifulest phonology
From: | Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, March 20, 2002, 13:49 |
Okay, you remind me that ? is a nice sound to have,
too, esp if you want to be very vocalic about things.
(Kayasanoda almost had that sound but it was changed
to h.)
Clint
--- jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...>
wrote:
> Muke Tever sikayal:
>
> > From: "Frank George Valoczy" <valoczy@...>
> > > ...in my opinion, regardless of whether it's
> likely or not, would be this:
> > >
> > > Vowels:
> > >
> > > i y 2 E a
> > >
> > > Consonants
> > >
> > > t_j d_j n_j F T D S Z h x K K\ l L w j
>
> Gosh, no unpalatalized stops! What an odd bunch.
>
> I noticed that a great many of you are including [S]
> and/or [Z]. Fooey.
> I haven't never included those in a "beautiful"
> phonology and never will.
> My most beautiful phonology is:
>
> Vowels:
> i y e a o u
>
> Consonants:
> p m P w
> t n s l r
> k x j
> ? h
>
>
> Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
>
> "If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine
> times, you are
> perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth
> time, you are in
> frightful danger of seeing it for the first time."
> --G.K. Chesterton
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