----- Original Message -----
From: Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 7:46 AM
Subject: Greek flavoring (was: My Apologies about Mysterious sounds)
> On Sunday, October 3, 2004, at 07:33 , Ben Poplawski wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 21:27:11 +0200, Rodlox <Rodlox@...> wrote:
> [snip]
> >>> But to return to your reply above. I am not clear how you understand
"a
> >>> Greek twist"
> >>
> >> a "flavour" if you will.
> >
> [snip]
> But if the flavor you are after is of ancient Greek, the the inclusion of
> certain diphthongs is desirable and also one ought to consider whether to
> include vowel length. I got the feeling - tho I may be wrong - that it was
> an ancient Greek flavor Rodlox had in mind.
*nods* part of me was thinking "seige of Troy"...part of me was thinking
"destruction of Second Temple".
yeah, a wee bit of time between them. :)