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Re: Insane Question

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Monday, January 27, 2003, 10:43
En réponse à Sarah Marie Parker-Allen <lloannna@...>:

> > I'm feeling like I need to come up with a language that will make > rhyming > easy. Seriously, to write up a language that's primarily useful to > poets > and songwriters, and make every other consideration secondary. I, > frankly, > stink at making up rhymes in English. Maybe if there's a buffet > approach to > affixes... like, several suffixes (suffices?) that will do the same > thing > grammatically, allowed for each group of words. Six different ways of > indicating the genitive case, all of which are equally valid for any > noun. > Hmm. Hard to memorize, with way too much diversity for day-to-day > conversations, but perfect for rhyming. And every suffix will have at > least > two or three syllables, so that they'll ALL rhyme all the time. >
Just check out: DiLingo, by sUmUs cAcOOnUs, D. E., available at http://www.dilingo.com/ :)) . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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