Re: vowel scheme for new language

I think it's a natural reaction to the tendency of a completely
uninformed conlanger to reproduce the idiosyncracies of his or her
native language out of ignorance of alternatives.

Tolkien didn't go for originality; he went for beauty (in his own
subjective judgement) -- he thought Welsh and Finnish were the most
beautiful languages he knew; so he produced a simplified and idealized
Welsh and Finnish.

Ed Heil -------------------------------- edheil@postmark.net
 "I think that all right-thinking people in this country are
sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people
are fed up in this country with being sick and tired!"
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dunn patrick w wrote:

> On Wed, 19 May 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> > But, in general, I don't worry about having exotic phonologies, I tend
> > to use relatively unexceptional phonologies, and put my exoticness in
> > the grammar.
>
> Hmm.  I wonder if the taste for "exotic" languages is over-rated.
>