Re: Age of Conlangers (was Re: Introduction; need advice)

* Joe said on 2002-12-20 17:17:38 +0100
> On Friday 20 December 2002 12:37 pm, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> > * Joe said on 2002-12-20 12:54:48 +0100
> > > Muëuä is my aesthetic dream, and it has an interesting grammar as well...
> > >
> > > Acuädiëmuë, laniöniäm aniëlälï muälä.  Täuëräl, laniöniäm guäniëlö
> > > aniä, däuïniïm täuä amuälö. Däniëniïm niümuä niäuä tiä lä niäuä
>
> The umlauts, well, it changes the quality of the vowel a bit...from /E/ to
> /e:/, for instance.  Basically, it marks length.  Incidentally, I use |u| and
> |i| as semivowels, as well as vowels. All vowels next to a semivowel are
> long. So, phonetically, the snippet of text you have is
>
> /akwa:dje:mwe:, lanjO:njA:m nje:lA:li: mwA:lA: tA:we:rA:l, lanjO:njA:m
> gwA:nje:lO: anjA: dA:wi:nji:m tA:wA: amwA:lO: dA:nje:nji:m nju:mwA: njA:wA:
> tjA: lA: njA:wA: /
So statistically there are fever short vowels than long vowels? Rare :)
Maybe you should switch around the symbols, and call the vowels
'short' and 'normal' instead of 'short' and 'long'?

Back to sketching fonts, uh, I mean, cleaning for Yule, which is
celebrated on the eve of the 24th with a big dinner, washing the dishes,
then unwrapping gifts, and no, please don't spam the list with how *you*
do it, this isn't soc.culture dontcha know.


t.