Re: Frankenlangs

Steven Williams <feurieaux@...> wrote:
>--- bob thornton schrieb:
>> >What sound does [P] represent?
>>
>> Er... a labiodental approximant.
>D'oh!
>> >> o, (O)
>> >> a, (Q)
>>
>> >You are a brave man.
>>
>>
>> What did I do this time?
>For the longest time, I couldn't even tell those two
>vowels apart. My native dialect of English doesn't
>distinguish between open [O] and back rounded [Q].
Texas lect means I WANT to learn all the places of articulation and vowels. I have a
hard time hearing it, but I practice often.

>> >> e,i, (Ey)
>>
>> >I love this diphthong. I would never have thought
>> of
>> >it on my own.
>>
>> Dankeschone!
>Actually, "danke schön" (yeah, I'm kind of anal). To
>which I say, "bitte schön".
Everyone's a little anal about something. Wow, that sounds horrible taken out of context.

>> What little grammar I have is based on the
>> isolating-ness of the lang. And the "gender" system.
>> Its a seven gender system, one gender for each
>> nasal. The genders are more elemental than based on
>> sex. They are fire > n~ water > nl air > m earth
>> > n, spirit > n mind > n,~ soul > m,
>Awesome. Very creative; I couldn't think of a
>reasonable gender system for Gi-an-nain, so I scrapped
>it entirely. You're starting out just great; how long
>have you been conlanging?

Erm... hold on. About seven months. Less than a year, that's all I know. I can't
stick to one language, though. It bothers me that I'm not able to stay with one
very long before going "Ooo, this is a fun principle, I'll play with it!"

-The (easily distracted) Sock


		
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