Re: Real Conlangs Here, Made-to-Order!

On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 12:05:55 -0500, David Starner <dvdeug@...>
wrote:

>Humans can really do better then putting together known parts with
>slight variations? Most people's first conlang, outside of a conlanging
>community, is derivative of their native language. How many humans would
>actually add sounds to a conlang outside a language they're familiar
>with, unless they have some linguistic training?
Well, my first conlang had sounds (back unrounded vowels and palatal stops)
that didn't occur in any language I was familiar with, but I'd read about
those sounds in an Encyclopedia Britannica article on phonetics. I also
made a distinction between different kinds of "s" and "z" sounds that I
didn't have a name for until I took a linguistics course in college and
learned the distinction between "apical" and "laminal".