Re: Making your language sound nice

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> From: Constructed Languages List
> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Poxon
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 5:18 AM
> To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
> Subject: Re: Making your language sound nice
>
> Personally, and as someone for whom "linguistic aesthetics"
> is crucial, I think that you need the occasional "jar" to
> make your language have a sense of realism. Tolkien himself
> thought that Quenya was too pretty (I'm paraphrasing him, but
> that's clearly what he meant). After all, there are few
> real-world languages that are completely mellifluous.
> Incidentally, is "chalo" related to Romany "Chavi" ?
> Mike
That's a good point about realism. I have to admit I think my original plan
was probably too idealistic - that is, making a language with no ambiguities
and sounding nice all the time.

I honestly don't remember where I got the word chalo. It was one of the
first words I created a couple years ago when I started this language.

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