Re: Japanese Long Consonants

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From: "Simon Richard Clarkstone" <s.r.clarkstone@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: November 5, 2004 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: Japanese Long Consonants


> Chris Bates wrote:
> > THat's what I was thinking, but to be honest I'm not sure I want to do
> > long vowels + glottal stops. My brain keeps trying to cut them off
> > early and make them short.
>
> That, of course provides a nice method for introducing realistic-seeming
> apparently-historical irregularities into your language.  Or, you could
> have a 3-way system (to what use, I don't know):
> * long vowel
> * short vowel
> * short vowel + glottal stop
>
> --
> Simon Richard Clarkstone
> s.r.cl*rkst*n*@durham.ac.uk / s*m*n_cl*rkst*n*@hotmail.com
>