Re: vowel scheme for new language

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From: dunn patrick w <tb0pwd1@...>
To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Date: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: vowel scheme for new language


>
>What's a pity is I like this vowel scheme.  Always have.  But I'd *hate*
>to use it since it's so damned common.  Conlang guilt, you know?
>
Common = natural and easy to use.

Wouldn't it be interesting to build a conlang using only the most common
sounds and the most common grammatical structures.

My own personal preference is for "nice" sounding conlangs.  I find, as I
listen to other langauges being spoken, that the sounds, and the way the
sounds flow together attract me more than the fine points of grammar.  Would
that any common phrase in my conlang sounded like a well crafted piece of
poetry ...
If I could attain that goal it wouldn't bother me at all to find that my
grammar turns out to be just like English grammar, or German grammar, or
whatever.  One grammar is as good as another, and (for me at least) the
nature of that grammar is irrelevant.  As long as it sounds good and flows
like the tintinabulation of a delicate windchime on a moderately breezy day.
The words should all be words that invite you to speak them over and over
just to thrill at their sound.  Words like "boozhamBUra", and "shalamOR",
and "mogaDAshi".
--G.