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Re: cell phone friendly conlang

From:Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...>
Date:Thursday, January 15, 2009, 14:20
Den 14. jan. 2009 kl. 23.31 skreiv Vincent Pistelli:

> With the rise of cell phones, I believe that there should be a cell > phone friendly language. To make it cell phone friendly the only > phonemes > would be the first letter on each key. I would probably make a and > j the > only vowels, but I could also add m as a vowel which would sound > like the > russian N or /i/ just because they look related. I could also add > w as a > semivowel to sound like /u/ at the end of a word and /w/ at the > beginning.
The w can do a good job as a vowel, too. One of my favourite words is 'crwth', for example. LEF

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