Re: Operation Infinite Vocabulary

Danny Wier wrote:
> From: "Tristan" <kesuari@...>
>
> Well Dragon is multisyllabic and has a simple vowel structure: the same short,
> long and diphthongal vowels as Common Semitic as preserved in Arabic. I might
> throw in short and long /e/ and /o/ for word roots, which will always be the
> first syllable since all bound morphemes are suffixed. Words can get quite long,
> along the lines of Malayalam, so there would be a need to make word compounding
> and complexity more efficient. A fully marked-verb can stretch a couple pages...
> actually a dozen syllables or more.
With a language like that, I don't think I need to bother Widsering it:
they'll never be able to say a complete sentence anyway ;)

> I forgot what that frequent vowel <y> Ygyde represented; wasn't it a schwa?
Initially I thought it was /y/, then I read the webpage and I'm almost
certain it said <y> was as in <gym>, which I've always pronounced /I/.

> And true, birds don't make good servants. I should've said that they'll either
> destroy or enslave mammals, which they consider aliens and mutants.
And they're not so wrong. We are mutants. But so are they. It's just we
mutated over a long time period and perhaps more radically.

Tristan.