Re: basic vocab

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 05:02:10PM -0400, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> [snip]
> > Amen.  I have definite phonetic aesthetic prejudices.  Very bad.
>
> Hmm. I think I have phonetic aesthetic prejudices too, but IMHO, that's a
> *good* thing, 'cos it gives your conlang a distinctive flavor. Well, that
> is, if you adjust your prejudices appropriately for your conlang, else
> it'd sound like your native language :-)
Well, if your prejudices are toward your native language, that would be
true.  Mine aren't actually toward Korean or English.  I think Polish and
Thai are the most phonetically beautiful natlangs I've ever heard (OC
there are many I haven't heard).  To some extent this has worked; at
least, some critiquers have commented that the names in Chevraqis sound
vaguely like Russian at times, and vaguely Chinese/Japanese at times (I'm
not sure where they got the Chinese from, unless it was just a generic
Asian-ish association).

YHL