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Re: CHAT: Synesthesia and conlanging (was Re: The ConlangInstinct)

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Friday, December 10, 1999, 19:06
"Grandsire, C.A." wrote:
> > Funny, you forgot the [l] in the pronunciation (it is not silent)
It's not? I thougth I read that it was!
> It also tends to add meaningless syllables > at the end of short sentences, like "C,a va-t'y ?" [sava'ti] for "C,a va > ?": how are you? are you OK? ('C,'is c-cedilla).
Yeah, I've red about that, the way that the [ti] added to forms like [vjE~ti] has been reanalyzed as a question suffix in some dialects. -- Today: 809/7/24 1/3/14/4/21 http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Conlang/W.html http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor