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Re: YHL's Meep & mi Ling-Frak (was Re: Workin' on some stuff.)

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Sunday, August 27, 2000, 17:45
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 10:01:11AM -0400, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
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> <sheepish look> Well, I do that do. But I started with meep and > expanded to mreep, grep, mrackle, mrack, meeps, meepsa, meepf, murkle, > and who knows what'll happen next. :-p My friends are getting used to > the increased inventory of strange sounds.
Hmm... I wonder if the increased inventory of strange sounds has anything to do with conlanging... ;-) I've been trying to pronounce every single word and word form in my conlang, as I hate creating a conlang even I myself can't pronounce... and I'm finding out (much to my joy / wonder / amazement / astonishment / horror) what those linguistic choices I made *actually* mean in terms of pronunciation. The nouns in my conlang are inflected using something I call "contouring" -- there's both vowel and consonant contouring, and when I designed the system, I only had a vague idea of what it sounds like. It's when I started pronouncing those words that it suddenly seems to take on a life of its own... :-P T