Re: Words with built-in error correction

Hi!

More redundancy:

Have pairs of consonants with corresponding vowels.  Select the
consonants, the phonemes, in a way they don't sound too similar (e.g.
do not have both /n/ and /l/).  The vowels are going to be the
checksums for the consonants:

E.g.
    Consonants: p t k s x n r
    Vowels:     2 y e o i a u

Now, for a word /knxrt/, you'd instead say /kinaxiruty/.

So far, so good.  Now, like the error correction technique used on a
CD, shift away the checksum from the phoneme a bit to reduce the
likelyhood of a distortion to destroy both the phoneme and its
checksum at the same time.  Do this by shifting forward the checksum
for some syllables.  Define, say, /a/ to be the filler vowel at the
beginning and /n/ the filler consonant at the end.  For different
syllable shift's, you'd get for /knxrt/:

   + 0 syl.  /kenaxiruty/
   + 1 syl.  /kanexarituny/
   + 2 syl.  /kanaxeratinuny/
   + 3 syl.  /kanaxaretaninuny/
   ...

And now, use a self-segregating morphology, plus additional redundancy
the way the other posters showed.  Have an agglutinative language that
synchs every word the /a/ and /n/ fillers, and you'll end up with
quite an alien artlang, I think. :-)

**Henrik

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