Re: Word Construction for a New Conlang

On Thu, 08 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> edheil@postmark.net writes:
> Beware!  Though Langmaker is cool and easy to use, its facilities for
> making sound changes are very crude.  For example, if you want to say,
> "vowels become long before voiced consonants," for some crazy reason,
> you'd have to write a separate rule for every possible combination of
> vowel and long consonant.
>
> Well i was thinking about it. No more =). After i wrote that email, i was
> playing around with the program and was thinking that there's no way i
> could control the way the sound shifts go. It cant do for instance:
> "change it so that all final d's become t's". It would change all d's to
> t's.  Also i have so many words right now that it would take me forever
> and a day to hand pick the ones that need changes.
>
> Ah well,  doing it by hand isnt hard anyway.
I believe the way to change only _final_ t's would be to put # (or whatever
character you choose for word separator) after the t. However, I also advise
using something such as Perl ;O)

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Eric Christopherson
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