Re: slaalehg ihkreen (was Re: Hullo

Stone Gordonssen wrote:
>
> For now, I've picked the following for Laafaah:
> 03 vowels: [A], [1], [M]
> 24 initial consonants and clusters: [p], [ps], [p\], [p\:], [s], [s:], [S],
> [S:], [s`], [C], [s_}], [x], [h], [W], [j], [K], [L], [t], [t_}], [t_s],
> [t_s:], [c], [t`], [n], [n:]
> 00 terminal consonants and clusters: [ps], [ps:], [p\], [p\:], [s], [s:],
> [S], [S:], [x], [h], [K], [L], [t], [t_s], [t_s:], [n], [n:] [ns], [ns:]
>
It certainly looks interesting, a lot of serpent-like sibilants?
Unfortunately, im not really quite sure how to pronounce most of those.
Is there some sort of reference? Ive downloaded the IPA speech program,
but that seems to use their own symbology.

>
>> Secondary object example:
>> "The fox gave a flower to the rat"
>> "(fox) ((gave) (flower)) (rat)"
>> "traafloot erdenoet nizayd feefleed"
>
>
> Cool. I've considered doing something vaguely similar in the past, but
> abandoned it as in approprite for my 3 existing conlangs.
>
>
>> "the fox gave the rat the flower that had been given to me by the
>> traveler"
>> "(fox) ((gave) ((flower) ((given) (me)) (traveller))) (rat)"
>> "traafloot erdenoet nizayt erdenoek liez liediv feefleed"
>
>
> Humor me here. Instead of
> ((given) (me)) (traveller))
> I'd have expected
> (((given) (traveller)) (me)).
>
Hmm, now that is very interesting and certainly a valid point. You seem
to have found a part of my grammer that requires a bit more thinking
about. Thanks, its always useful to get anothers point of view on
something like this.


> Also, would
> (fox) (((gave) ((traveller) (((gave)(flower)) (me))) (rat))*
> mean
> "The fox gave the rat the traveller who gave me the flower"?
>
Yup!

> *I've not used so many parens since I coded in LISP at the university
> computing centre. :-)
>
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