> Thanks for the notation helps. I sadly lack all but
> the slightest idea about phonology. Everything I get
> is from a book. Books are great for eyes, don't give
> much for ears, so I hardly ever know what they're
> talking about.
>
> > <kpigl, zsemoth>
> >
> > Looks like you have some unexpressed vowels in
> > there. Kpigl wants to turn
> > to /k@pig@l/ (@=schwa) in my mouth, and
>
> Between k and pigl, yes. Phonetically, there should
> be a short e or i between the two, but k is the past
> tense marker and there isn't supposed to be any other
> vowel. Somehow, when I say "pigl" the l is almost a
> vowel.
>
> zsemoth from
> > /SsemoT/ to
> > /S@semoT/.
>
> No, not that way, but only because there is a funny
> little rule that I never wrote about because it wasn't
> important at the time. The rule is that z (or /S/)
> can never stand alone at the beginning of a word.
> Thus combinations like zy-, zg-, zl-, zm-, zn-,etc.
> But I ran into the problem of WANTING a word to just
> start with z-. Should I be a tyrant of my own
> language, as Tolkien describes? Well, maybe I am, I
> just tweeked the rule a little and came up with zs-,
> which phonectically sounds like /S/-, but still
> satisfies the "not alone" rule. Silly rules.
>
> TseTse
>
>
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