Re: Laadan was Re: Posession

>In the Laadan grammar S.H.E. says that the pejorative use of "Lh" is
>"patterned after a similar feature of Navajo, and is something so very
>handy that I
>have always wished it existed in English."
Yes.

>That confirms that Navajo was the inspiration, but doesn't tell us how the
>"similar feature" works in that language.
Well, Navajo does have [K], but nothing in my reading indicates it is more
than yet another phoneme in the language.

>I have to say I was surprised by the level of hostility towards Laadan
>exhibited during the previous conlang discussion on the subject.  Few other
>languages have produced such heat here.
I need to go back to try and read those archives. For now, the hostility, to
my mind, is unjustified.

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