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

From: "Christian Thalmann" <cinga@...>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 4:36 PM

> Not at all, I absolutely love making phonologies.
> Disappointingly
> (?), I usually end up with rather simple vowel systems,
> and no
> hard-to-pronounce consonants.  But maybe that's just the
> recipe
> for pleasing phonologies?  It seems to work for Quenya,
> IMHO the
> hallmark of pleasing phonology.
Don't take any offense, Christian or Jörg, but I don't find
Quenya that pleasing from what I heard in the recordings
Christian has made: Waaaay too many [Al:a]'s IMHO. But all
in all I agree, simplistic phonologies sound best.

Carsten

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