Re: A Conlang, created by the group?

Steg wrote on 10.08 :

> , and i'd much rather participate in creating a language that i can
> speak, too.
I'd also like my friends to be able to speak it.

> I can't palatize either (no experience with it), so i agree
> whole-heartedly to all equivalents, including /sj/ = /S/ and /zj/ = /Z/.
So do I.

> What does "assimilated to next place of articulation" mean, exactly?  The
> nasal shifts depending on the next consonant that follows it?
I fear nasals will be a mess. I was kidding when I wrote any language should
feature them. If you don't drop them, I'll suggest a different nasal for EACH
vowel, including /u/, /i/, /e/ and /y/ (blackmail ? what blackmail ? ;-)
Don't tell me it's easy to pronounce : I myself can't tell very well the difference
between 'un', 'en' (in 'chien') and 'in'. I'm sure Christophe would agree.

> I prefer a free word order, made possible by the cases.
Then please realize you need a HEAVY case system, sometime even 'doubled' (on
adjectives for example). Are you ready for it ? Yeah ? Ok !
'I cut down John's heavy chair-leg' with enough tags to make it possible to have
adjectives, compounds and complements of noun be head as well as tail of their
respective referents :
I'd like to compose :
'Leg-chair John's cut-down heavy I'
Please. ;-) (HEAVY means real heavy. I'd like to try that but I fear the language
would quickly disappear)
Mathias



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