At 17:09 31/10/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...> writes:
> > It's main aim was to make the language look less like
> > Finnish. Here's what the language looks like using it:
> >
> > Salossa Kattolt ...
Kattolt (`north-land') was made to look like another word I came up with
previously: ëannolt (`east-lands'). The recipe is lengthen the final
consonant and add -olt. That world was made to look vaguely Gaelic.
>Actually, at least these first two words now look perfectly like
>Finnish to me, because it now even obeys its vowel harmony rules. :-)
>
>In general, I found both writings equally not look like Finnish very
>much. The older one because of ë and the vowel harmony disobedience,
>the newer one because of the missing tremas and the acute.
I'm going sticking with the old orthography with a change: <o> and <ö>
swapped like you suggested. The newer one was an attempt to get away
from the quasi-Finnish look it managed to get.
K.
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