Re: Rs

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Bates" <christopher.bates@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: Rs



> Am in between conlangs at the moment, I've been spending most of my time
> listening to spanish. I might have a bad accent but at least I'll know
> when the waiters are swearing at me when I go there lol. I took a break
> from conlanging because I got into a conlang writer's block where
> everything I came up with seemed like rubbish. I'm thinking of starting
> again and leaving the 'invent 50 million cases + declensions' philosophy
> behind and going for a much more isolating type of language, much more
> vocalic than I used to do. I was considering a polysynthetic one but
> since I don't know any polysynthetic languages (I got the cases
> addiction from learning some latin and later from my russian friend) it
> would probably be a bad idea. Incidentally, my russian friend has the
> same problem as me, since he is of russian origin, but moving to england
> when he was young has somehow made him able to pronounce russian
> perfectly except for the fact his rs are most definately never trilled
> (his mum speaks russian to him constantly, so he learned it solely from
> her). Where abouts in England are you from?
>
I had a Conlangers block a few months ago.  These days I'm developing
dialects of my main Conlang.  Trust me, you don't want to be near colloquial
Zitwbajan when it goes off.   I'll reveal it to the group sometime.

I'm from Oxfordshire, by the way.  Wantage, to be specific(where King Alfred
was born...our one and only claim to fame).

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