Re: Here, *Here*, and There, *There*

En réponse à Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...>:

> Christophe Grandsire sekalge:
> >|f ihbaodhoir| [f 'Ta:x]: between, among (|ibaodhoir| ['pa:x] means
> "middle").
>
> You obviously took the worst portions of French wossname
> (phonorepresentation?) and made them worse.
Not really. My main inspirator is the Irish orthography ;)) . But it's true
that the French orthography can look quite scary for somebody who doesn't know
the logic behind it (unfortunately, even French people usually don't know it :
(( ).

 I didn't think that it was
> possible.
>
Well, it was quite easy actually. I chose a very small set of letters (the
alphabet has only 17 letters) and tried to use it to express a lot of different
sounds, describing everything in terms of digraphs, trigraphs and
tetragraphs :)) . A few exceptions, letters that have more than one
pronunciation and sounds which can be written in more than one way, the result
is that even a perfectly regular expression like the one above looks extremely
scary :)) . Well, not perfectly regular, but most of it still :)) .

> As for the grammar to which you alluded, was it based on anything?
A bit on Gaelic, but most of it comes out of my head. I just try to make things
as non-straighforward as possible :)) .

 Or
> did
> you simply look through a linguistics textbook, combining the scariest
> bits you could find?
The Internet and the list are enough to get all the ideas of the world :))) .

 Or are you sadistic (or masochistic) enough to
> invent it without help?
Well, it's actually quite enjoyable :))) . And I don't plan to ever be able to
speak it :)) . Not even to write or read it as a matter of fact :)) .

 Or are you just bluffing?
>
Well, some day I'm gonna share the huge adjective morphology I created, and
you'll see that I'm not bluffing :)) . And I'm not even yet at the pronouns,
and the verbs are not even really thought of :))) .

Christophe.

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