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Re: USAGE: Fänyläjikyl Inglyx

From:Roland Hoensch <hoensch@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 7, 1999, 1:37
Yes, and gain one of those odd little things where poems that sound
good *have those eye-rhymes right in them*.  Seems like an improvement
to me.

Now You can have mostly one or mostly the other.
With Fynetik Inglix You can have both, or You can go back to current
spelling styles and do whatever You wish.

----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: F=E4nyl=E4jikyl Inglyx


> On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Roland Hoensch wrote: > > > English-teachers will no longer be the (probably one of the) last
remaining
> > poor souls who have to remind children that rhyming words do not alwa=
ys
> > look the same and words that look the same do not always rhyme. (as
they
> > more logically do in most [even] near-phonetically spelled languages) > > And then we'll lose one of the most interesting poetic techniques in > English, that of eye-rhyme, which as far as I know only works in > ideographic languages as well. This hardly seems an improvement to me. >