Re: Heyas all!
| From: | Trace Erin Kern <tracefox@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 28, 1999, 7:43 |
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On Sat, 27 Mar 1999 16:36:50 -0300 FFlores <fflores@...> writes:
>Trace Erin Kern <tracefox@...> wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:54:32 -0500 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
>writes:
>[snip]
>> >Cool. It could be the beginning of a conlang. I assume you have
>a
>> >pronunciation for that? If so, start with those sounds, and
>expand
>> >on it, to give you your phonology, and then break down the words
>> >in some way into morphemes, and assign meanings, so for
>>
>> I understood half of what you just said. <sheepish grin>
>
>A morpheme is a meaning unit (I think that's a good simple
>explanation, anybody else?).
For example:
Goh' = Light
Noh' = Dark
That what you mean?
>> Anyways, as for pronounciation:
>> Caps = long vowel IE blAde
>>
>> Hah'Rooqh - two syllables, Hah <ah> Rooqh <rUk> with partial
>trilling of
>> the R.
>> Tah'Khrine - two syllables, short sounding <ta> followed by <krEEn>
>> again, with a trilled R.
>> Eayl - two syllables, <E> <ale>
>> Noh'Tahl - <no> with a partially silent H, <tall> again with H
>partially
>> silent.
>>
>> Not sure of the correct terminology for all that, but there it is
>in
>> layman's terms.
>
>No problem with those, unless you get confused. I'm a layman too
>(I'm not a linguist) but some things I have learned here:
>
>Don't use English or English-based spellings. It can work on some
>words, but not on really alien-looking ones. Try to use one symbol
>(or combination of symbols) for each sound. This way you can spell
>anything without having to transform it into English spelling,
>which is difficult and misleading to say the least.
>For example, <Hah'Rooqh> could be _ahruk_, <Tah'Khrine> _takre:n_,
>etc.
However, using English style spelling helps when you're doing a conlang
for writing stories. After all, you don't want to make it too difficult
for the reader to pronounce "Zahkran's" name.
>You should take a look at the Language Construction Kit, at
>
http://www.zompist.com/kit.html. You probably won't need the grammar
>part, but it has some nice simple explanations on phonetics, for
>a start.