Re: CHAT: Most boring part of constructing a new language?
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 17, 1999, 15:13 |
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On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Patrick Dunn wrote:
> OOoh! I found the part I hate most.
>
> When you decide to use a glotal stop instead of an [h] to separate certain
> vowels and have to go back through the whole damned language and change
> just *certain* [h]'s into [']. *pulls out hair*
>
Never change anything retrospectively - just find some way to
declare it 'dialectal', 'adstrate influence', or, when worst comes
to worst 'outdated transcription practices'...
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt