Re: Personal langs and converse of aux

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, jesse stephen bangs wrote:

> Brian Phillips sikayal:
>
> >   first off to introduce myself, I'm Brian, live in DC, am a medic and
> >  a student.
> >   I am rather new to the "secret vice" and I look forward to being able to
> > toss questions out on the list and hopefully get some ideas and guidance
> >  from those that have been playing this wonderful game for some time.
>
> Allow me to be the first to welcome you to conlang!
Hello Brian, and I'm glad I caught this, because I didn't see the
original message.  :-p

> On the other hand, here are some phonological features that are found in a
> significant fraction of the worlds languages or in important world langs,
> but which can be very difficult for people that lack them in their native
> language:
>
> Aspirated stops distinct from unaspirated stops
> Rounded front vowels
> Unrounded back vowels
> The phones [T] and [D]
> The trilled /r/
> The untrilled American English /r/
Dear God, trilled r's.  <slightly guilty look>  But I *am* working on the
trill, darnit...it just sounds shaky.

> >   Similarly I would include Sign/gestural components into the PPC,
> > infant-signing/gesture being one of those things that fascinate me, and it
> > would prep them for mastering ASL.  I would try to include as many
> > "developmentally-enriching" traits as possible.  Has anyone else thought
> > about this sort of thing?
>
> I have, but I soon abandoned the project as impossible.  Hope that you
> stick with it.
I thought about the sign aspect but a) I already have a conlang plus two
sketches on the back burner, and I haven't figured out how to deal with
notation.  Though considering I like to draw and I have an art tablet, it
would be good practice drawing hand/arm diagrams.  :-p

Wish you the best of luck.

Yoon Ha Lee
(female, BTW)