Re: Esthetics
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 27, 2005, 21:48 |
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Hallo!
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:07:54 -0800,
"B. Garcia" <madyaas@...> wrote:
> This came up a bit recently, but i'd like to know more from others.
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> How do you all determine the esthetics of your conlangs? Do you have a
> formal system of rules governing combinations of vowels, consonants,
> dipthongs, etc. etc.? Or do you just go by "feel"?
I definitely have no formal system of rules, but entirely go by "feel".
I have some idea of what the language should sound like, and invent
words such that they sound "right". The style of Old Albic is a
"classical" one, like Latin, Greek, Sanskrit or Quenya, spiced with
Celtic. But no formal rules, let alone word-generation algorithms.
Some roots, however, are derived from Proto-Indo-European roots
by regular sound correspondences, as I imagine Albic to be distantly
related to Indo-European. But that's only a small subset of roots.
Greetings,
Jörg.
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