Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Heyas all!

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Thursday, March 25, 1999, 19:40
Mathew Willoughby wrote:
> Very useful if you're like me and you tend to wind up with too > many homophones in your languages.
Nothing wrong with homophones! :-) I've used langmaker before, and I didn't really like it. It's too much trouble, IMO, to make a reasonable distribution of sounds (since not all phonemes are equally common, in English, for example, you have more /s/'s than /Z/'s. That's not to denigrate that program, if you like it, it's great. But, as for homophones, I usually either keep them or I'll make slight changes to them, change a vowel or two so that they're merely almost homophones rather than homophones. -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-name: NikTailor