Re: Making your language sound nice

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> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Benct Philip Jonsson
> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 8:23 AM
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> Subject: Re: Making your language sound nice
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> 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.
As I've said, my original idea was to avoid ambiguity, but the more I work
on this the more I difficult that seems to become. Also, my goals have
changed a bit. At first I was created this language just for the sake of
creating a language. But recently a friend and I have begun working on a
fantasy story and I thought of using this language in the story. So now
making it more "realistic" would make sense. Though I was still hoping to
make it sound nice.

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Michael D. Martin (AKA: Masonheart)
http://masonheart.blogspot.com/
Master Mason, S. W. Hackett #574
Free & Accepted Masons of California
http://www.calodges.org/no574/
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