Re: Hypersimple & Dreadfully Unnatural Grammars

On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Edward Heil wrote:

> Vowels are defined in a "chain" that zigzags through the mouth:
>
> i -> u -> e -> o -> a.  Schwa (@) is not part of the chain.
> At the beginning of a sentence, all the vowels are i.  However, each
> time a parenthesis is opened, you jump one vowel down the chain.
Danoven used a mechanism like that for conjunctions, I think.

> You can't go more than five levels deep in the language as I've figured
> it out at this point.
Diphthongs!