Re: Euphonic phonology (Was: 'Nor' in the World's Languages)

On 8/8/06, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:

> Anyway, do others also have such a hard time finding personally
> pleasing phonologies?  I find it awefully difficult.
>
> **Henrik
I do, although for me it's more about how the language looks than how
it actually sounds. Since I create most of my languages for stories,
how the language looks in transliteration is important to me. (And I'm
picky about the transliteration not being too inaccurate or ambiguous,
too.) I probably spend more time trying to balance what I consider
interesting and pleasing with what's sensible and pleasing in
transliteration.

What I wonder, is does anyone have the same problem when it comes to
morphology, syntax, etc? Sometimes I end up tossing a whole language
because I don't think it's elegant enough, enough though there are at
least ten different reasons that doing that is silly.

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Katya