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>> > I'm not happy with
>> > the
>> > enormous number of homophones that are showing up! Anyone have ideas?
>> > Thanks for your help, folks, ahead of time.
>> > Clint
>>
>> Why not go with the homophones? You could have words that sound the
>> same, but have archaic-spelling differentiation in writing. Or, you
>> could develop Chinese (IIRC) -like compounds for homophones, so, if for
>> instance, the words for "fire" and "language" were homophones, you could
>> have "hotfire" to mean "fire", and "speaklanguage" to mean "language".
>
>Or, even more Chinese-like, you could invoke tone! That could be lots
>of fun.
>
Jim Carter, an early loglanist, once showed me his well developed conlang
that used tones. He might still have a web page.
Jerry