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.
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