Re: Worthwhile Engelang Goal

>René Uittenbogaard wrote:
>
>>David J. Peterson wrote:
>> >
>> > Though, another idea I'm having too late is showing where a given
>> > conlanger creates their *own* sound symbolism.
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>> > All these words have to do with brightness or whiteness, and
>> > all have some sort of palatal in them (and a lot have that /tw/
>> > phone).
>> >
>> > Anyway, have any others done things like this?  Or perhaps a
>> > better question: Those who have done this (intentionally or
>> > unintentionally), would you care to share?  The lecture's done
>> > with, but it'd still be cool to hear about.
>>
>>Calénnawn uses |h|+vowel for negative words like nothing, no one,
>>nowhere, never, etc. e.g.
>>
>>hort	zero
>>hið	none of
>>hi	no
>>hes	not
>>huy-	the opposite of
>>hépla	not any more; not yet (depending on other words)
>>
>>and compounds like:
>>
>>bey hort    never
>>fond hort   nothing
>>cas hort    no one
>>
>>
>>René
>
>In Vbazi I use /N/ (represented by |q|) in the words that imply
>negativeness
>
>no = qi
>
>nobody = qit   (nominative form)
>nowhere = bjakq   (syllabic /N/)
>nothing = taq
>never = -waq-   (it is an auxiliary so it conjugates)
>
>for making a verb negative = (l)aq   (a "l" if the previous word ends with
>a
>vowel)
>
>for making an auxiliary negative = (l)yq   (|y| = /E/)
>
>for making a modal prefix negative = waq, vdyq, qe, yheq
>              (the word used will depend of the number there are and which
>one is negative)
>
>nullar = qe (before the noun)
>              also used to answer "none" to a "how many..." question
And another symbolism I have found is in feelings

feeling: vav

sadness: vavjedz
anger: vavletik
happyness: vavnyl

(nyl is also used with the words for "day", "night"... to say "good day" =
"vinyl" , "good night" = "gynyl" etc..)

satisfaction: vavnyljeb
desire: vavez
pain: vavkit
boredom: vavwil
nostalgia: vavjedzwil
impatience: vavgazdyi
revolt: vavqaln (still the idea of negativeness)

But love and hate are exceptions, they respectively are "kaivb" and "gwaib"

>
>- Max