Re: Insane Question

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
>
> En r=E9ponse =E0 Sarah Marie Parker-Allen <lloannna@...>:
>
> > I'm feeling like I need to come up with a language that will make
> > rhyming easy.
> > [meta-snip]
> Just check out: DiLingo, by sUmUs cAcOOnUs, D. E., available at
> http://www.dilingo.com/ :)) .
You don't have to go *that* far (*shudder*).  To make rhyming fairly
easy, what you need is to not have too many different vowels in stressed
syllables.  English and French have far too many, which is what makes
them painful to rhyme.  (Old French was much better; so is Spanish.)

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