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Re: THEORY: Reduplication

From:Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 17:52
Dirk Elzinga comuni:

> But I don't think that Jeffrey was concerned too much with the > mechanics of reduplication, but rather with its aesthetics.
Exactly. Not that I'm against reduplication, any more than I am against using the letter 'k' in a language -- it just depends on the effect I'm trying to achieve. Dublex uses 'c' for /k/, for instance, because I want its words to have what Leo Moser calls a "prestige orthography". I think reduplication is perceived by speakers of Western languages as unrefined and less civilized -- emotional reactions to a linguistic phenomenon, but there you have it. Now reduplication is something I will probably use in my sketch language Kalisise (http://www.langmaker.com/kalisise.htm), probably as an intensive. Best regards, Jeffrey http://jeffrey.henning.com http://www.langmaker.com