Re: Conlang Typology Survey

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> Hehe, [words spelt the same but pronounced differently] are necessary
> for true maggelity ;))) . And it's even nicer when
> they have similar meanings or are different forms of the same word ;))) .

Well, Pidse only has a handful of words... there's time yet! And given
it's something English does (e.g. read vs read), I don't think there's
any choice in the matter. (And it wouldn't be that hard, either... just
create an orthographical rule that the second root of nouns deriving
from Ygyde words in /i/[1] don't have the <ı> (dotless i) marking the
second root written, so a huge class of pairs of words will look
identical but be pronounced anything but.)

[1]: Ygyde words beginning in /I/ will get to optionally lose it, I
guess, but the 'norm', such as the term may be applied to a maggelic
orthography, would be to keep it, as shown by <Yovc> vs <ıIyovc> (first
letter is dotless i), drought (I think).

> Hehe, I know, I won't stop at anything ;)))) .

Not even a red light? That sounds dangerous, not to mention illegal! :P

> Of course, I also have words
> spelt differently and pronounced the same, with different functions, like
> |ragft|: women (unknown number), subject form, |rajm|: the same in object
> form, both pronounced ['r\a~N] (and believe it or not, in both cases the
> final [N] is a regular pronunciation ;))) ).

I've seen enough of Maggel to not be surprised :)

> So, is that evil enough or do I have to do worse? ;)))

It's certainly a start :)

>>  I'm also supposed to be doing Java and Psych assignments
>> :( Why can't they just trust me that I know it all? :)
>
> LOL. Are you trustworthy? ;)))
Of course!

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>