| From: | Ed Heil <edheil@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 19, 1999, 21:32 |
Jennifer, I'm flattered beyond belief. :) Though I must confess that the morphological streamlining is partly due to laziness on my part -- this language was isolating because I didn't want to put the work into it that a properly inflected language should have; and it was SVO because otherwise it'd sound too damned much like English (since I don't know enough about the grammar of any proper isolating language -- e.g. Chinese -- to give it the proper complexities and nuances) -- and also because I had already established from my "Chanan Philology" file that Chanan languages have head-first noun-modifier constructions, and I had just been reading up on language universals (see my universals pages: http://www.crosswinds.net/~edheil/universals.html and universals2.html) and I knew that SVO was nice and harmonic with a NA, NG language. I'd love to hear about your project when you have any tidbits you can present. Ed Heil -------------------------------- edheil@postmark.net "I think that all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired!" "No, you're not." "I'm certainly not! But I'm sick and tired of being told that I am!" ------------------------------------------------------------ J. Barefoot wrote:> Wow. That *sounds* really good. I wouldn't have thought that a language > without stops could sound so darn pleasing, and be so morphologically > streamlined, though that doesn't really have anything to do with phonemic > inventory (or does it?) I might as well give up conlanging, _my_ goal has > been accomplished, and by someone else! Not, that I will, of course, > anyway... > BTW, that post about Chanan philology was an inspiration for my current > project. > > Jennifer Barefoot > > > _______________________________________________________________ > Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com >