Re: replies to padraic brown and danny wier

Samuel Rivier wrote:
> 4. aUI clone- not an international auxilary language,
> but a UNIVERSAL auxilary language- how can one
> communicate with aliens?
I've thought about this a bit.  My notion is that there would be a small
number of "phonemes" split into two categories (called A and B), each
having, say, 8 "phonemes".  All "syllables" would be AB.  The nature of
these "phonemes" would depend on the species.  For instance, for humans,
A could be consonants (say, /p t k m n l f s/) and B could be vowels
(say, /i i: e e: a a: u u:/).  Other species would use different
values.  Simple AB would ensure that it would be easily adapted to a
wide variety of communication systems.  I'm sure that any language would
have to have phoneme-analogues.

> 5. French sounds- so beautiful to the ear- maybe a
> language based on french speech
Beauty's in the ear of the beholder.  :-)  I like a few sounds in French
like /Z/, but the over all sound is displeasing to me, it's mostly the
front rounded vowels and nasalized vowels I dislike.  Also, not enough
stops.

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