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Re: Goblin phonology

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Monday, August 16, 1999, 18:00
David G. Durand wrote:

> /o/ Should be rare in Orkish, the more so the closer the dialect is to the > black speech, given Tolkien's note that Black speech totally lacked /o/.
Actually, he says "in the Black Speech 'o' was rare." -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! / Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge / Politzer