Re: "Newbie"

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:25:53 -0800, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:

> My first "big" conlang specifically stated that in the
> conculture that went along with it the language was a
> global one spoken with many different accents around
> the world, and so the whole notion of "correct"
> pronunciation was simply non-existent.
'kay.

My conlangs have either been dead languages, where no official
pronunciation is known (Wenetaic, Thagojian), or have such monstrously
monstrous phoneme sets that a very clear and precise description is
absolutely necessary (mQlo`, and a currently-in-progress non-human language
of which more is coming soon), such that the things that vary from one
accent to another are not the usual things that vary in "normal" languages.

I suspect that a number of conlangs are like that. See also Klingon, about
which plenty has been said in these parts of late.

|t| > /t/ ~ /t_h/ ~ /t_d/ ~ /t_d_h/ ~ /T/
|d| > /d`/ ~ /n`d`/ ~ /d`~/ ~ /n`/
|tlh| > /kl/ ~ /tl/ ~ /tl_0/ ~ /tK/ ~ /K/ ~ /SK)/ ~ /T/
|q| > /k/ ~ /q/ ~ /kr\_0/ ~ /qr\/

Some of these, of course, are non-(lang)-canon, but I've heard all of them
from one (show)-canon source or another. Regardless, they're things that
vary by accent, that do not vary in ways that similar sounds in European
languages do.





Paul
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