Re: Making your language sound nice

On 2008-06-15 Michael Martin wrote:
 >  My only concern is ending up with a modified
 >  word that resembles some other word. Like if
 >  "chalol" became "chalor" but there was already
 >  a root word "chalor."

Are you sure that homophony would be bad? If you
want a 'logical' language without any ambiguity --
which AFAIK can only be approximated -- it
probably is bad, but if you want a naturalistic
language homophony might be good, as AFAIK all
natlangs have homophones.

/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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