CHAT reformed Gaelic

Ray Brown wrote:
> On Thursday, December 4, 2003, at 11:32 PM, Stephen Mulraney wrote:
>> Indeed. I made a mock-up over a year ago, which can be see at
>> http://ataltane.net/conlangs/sampla-ga.pdf
>
> I'll be visiting that site   :)
There's not much more there except for out of date and incomplete details
about semi-abandoned conlangs :). Also, I think so of the pages won't
display properly in Internet Explorer (don't ask...!)

> [snip]
>
>> Also you can see an (even less carefully thought out) example of
>> *Russian*
>>  written
>> in *Irish* orthography at the following location... :)
>>
>> http://www.livejournal.com/users/ataltane/21573.html
> >
> Now that's even more interesting   :)
It's quite a mess, to be honest; But I think it could be made
consistent with a little work :)

> BTW I do disagree with JRRT over Gaelic - I find it one of the more
> pleasant
> sounding languages.
Me too. Of course, impressions of a language's pleasant-soundingness
often increase with exposure (as you become more familiar with the
phoneme inventory, the allophonic range of each phoneme, etc), but
I find Irish fantastically wonderful to listen to. My brief
acquaintance with(Scottish) Gaelic suggests that it's even more
attractive (I particularly like the pronunciation of |b d g| as
[p t k], and |p t k| as something like [hp ht xk] when non-initial.
To my mind, it's a good example of what I might assume to be a much
too far-reaching rule (what, no [b d g] in the interiors of words,
ever?!), resulting in a very distinctive sound.

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Stephen Mulraney  ataltane@ataltane.net  http://livejournal.com/~ataltane
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, how-
ever measured or far away.                        --  Henry David Thoreau

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