Re: "real" names in Chevraqis

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > <blank look>  Unfortunately I have no clue about Arabic phonology, I've
> > just seen the morphology described.  :-(
>
> Oh.  Well, Arabic has no /p/.  Knowing that Chevraqis had an Arabic-like
> morphology, I thought you might've made the phonology to reflect it as
> well.  Guess not.  :-)
>
<grimace>  The phonology has been almost predetermined by the set of
sounds that I rather arbitrarily picked for the language before I knew
anything about phonology, so I could devise semi-consistent names for a
novel that I'm *still* working on.  If I'd known better at the time I
probably would've done something sensible and made the phonology reflect
Arabic or something else.

YHL