Re: THEORY: more questions

Hi folks,

I've got more thinks I don't know what they mean or I just wanted to know why it is as it is:

  a.. open/close syllables 
  b.. oblique (as an aspect or mood or so) 
 c.. in my conlang, there's a special mood for purposes, how could this be
called with the grammatical term? I mean, something like "permittive" for the
mood you must use when you ask for something that must be permitted - still I'm
not sure if "permittive" is right there, but at least it sounds
Grammticalese...
 d.. I deleted all those "Weekly Vocab" Mails, but then I saw these mails are
aids for inventing words ... a discipline I'm not very good in, too. How can I
tell the server to send me all those first "Weekly Vocab" mails from 1 to the
current number (30)? Or have I to search the archive and download that stuff by
hand? I mean, that's not difficult, but boring and getting this delivered by
email would be more comfortable.
 e.. Seeing where a consonant is pronounced and how it should sound like from
the chart works pretty well already ... but what about vowels? How do I know
that e.g. the <i> in <feet> is a front and close? Or that [O] is open-mid back?
  f.. What are "sonorants"? 
 g.. What is an "umlaut"? I'm German, so there are umlauts in my native
language, but I saw this already in other contexts than German /a/ > /E/, /o/ >
/2/, /u/ > /y/ (a>ä, o>ö, u>ü). How does umlauting work for other vowels or
does it work for other vowels at all?
 h.. The optional question that I actually should be able to look up on the
internet myself if I'd know where: Why is German e.g. <ei> pronounced [aj],
<eu> and <äu> [oj] and <ie> [i:]? Or even more odd, /a_u/ changes to /oj/ in
the plural: [ha_us] > ["hojz@]. Or sometimes, <chs> is pronounced [k_s], and
sometimes [xs]. Is it because of some sound changes during the middle ages?

I'm sure there'll be more things I don't know what they mean or how to do... I
won't stop annoying you MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH ... now, the last bit was just fun
;o)

Carsten

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