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

Hi!

Benct Philip Jonsson writes:
>...  I have used computer-generated vocabulary for my a-priori langs.
>I actually find it a pleasing challenge to design or configure a
>generator to produce all forms that satisfy the phonological
>constraints and none that violate them.  It's all the easier since I
>despise the notion of the sound of words fitting their meaning.  ...
That's interesting again: I have no problems at all writing word
generators for my engelangs, it's like implementing the phonology of
single words, not more and not less.  So I always use them (for
engelangs).  But I cannot easily create a lexicon anyway, since the
design of entries, the break-down, derivation, compounding, decision
of what is a root, etc. is awefully painful again.

My current lexicon project tries to only focus on a solution for my
engelangs.  Probably all my upcoming engelangs will use that 'lexicon
module' this project hopefully yields.

And even in Þrjótrunn (a romlang), I struggle for ages for each new
word (particularly verbs, it turns out) a) to find out what would be
the most 'realistic' choice and b) to decide what simplifications or
modifications the forms would have undergone (additional to the mere
application of the GMP).  This is although the Romance languages
practically give me all I need.  However, since Þrjótrunn is
contructed to have less Gallic influence and more Germanic, it is
different from the romnatlangs here.

**Henrik