Re: On Phonological Constraints: The Long Vowel Rule

Don't let them discourage you from your euphonic rule.  Just
because something is possible doesn't mean your language
should allow it.  That's what phonotactics is all about, and
it flavors your language.  Conlangs often look and sound like
orc utterances to me -- I wish more people would enforce a
sense of aesthetics in their langs...

I like the rule, it sound similar to the ones I developed for
my sketchlang Calipone.  Their purpose was no other than to
make it sound more pleasant.  As a corollary, they caused a
lot of trouble...  nouns shifting the stress placement in
adjectives, or two nouns spawning an epenthetic *syllable* in
between.  Isn't euphony fun?

  http://www.cinga.ch/langmaking/calipone.html

I made this up after my exposure to Modern Greek, but it
never got off the ground.


-- Christian Thalmann