Re: vrindo (was "Re: CHAT Re: Can't stop agulunating, HELP!")

> >    ...
> > *  V=EBano s=EFrvo seld=EBahy=EBr=E4n, v=EBanen tana'vrindor?
> >    Kalden=EF!  =CBven=EF!  Tarvene h=EBven=EF!
> >    Nandarim ayarin fellanad bindor.
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> That's beautiful!  You also talked about vrindo in a note, and I
> remember
> thinking the initial "vr" cluster, plus the "indo" was soooooo Teonaht. =
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> I might even have a word dedicated to this sound already.
I think Teonaht is great phonetically, so common elements with Arov=EBn are
not surprising ;-) ;-)
I suspect that any conlanger tends to collect all his/her favorite sounds
in their personal language -- I wonder, then, whether any conlanger would
tend to like languages best which sound most like their own?  I wonder what=
 a
Chinese or an African conlanger would think of these lines.  Tolkien's
Quenya sounds a lot like Finnish because Tolkien loved Finnish, and Sindari=
n
sounds like Welsh.  My lang. sounds Indo-European and I like it best that
way, but what kind of language would I find most beautiful if I were an
Ainu?  It would almost certainly be something very different...
What factors go into such regional conceptions of beauty in language?


> Don't sign off *too* shortly!  After Fabian translates it and gives it
> to Irina,
> and after Irina translates it back into Valdyan and gives it to the list
> with
> her original poem, then we're all supposed to cough up our contributions
> publically.  This should be by next week.  I hope everyone's here, so
> there=20
> isn't a break in the chain!  Will you have access to email? =20
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> Sally
Sure, I'll stick around to see the results of the relay... I'm pretty curio=
us
to see what this poem was originally about!

Josh

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