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Re: An aesthetic question

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 5, 2001, 15:04
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 08:46:51 -0400 Shreyas Sampat <nsampat@...>
writes:
> In my conlang Nrit, all the five cardinal vowels can be nasalized. > Now, this is bad, because I cannot comfortably pronounce nasal high > vowels; > they seem to want to fall to lower adjacent vowels. It's also been > observed that nasals tend to be lower anyway. > --- > Good afternoon, > Shreyas
- If you can't pronounce nasal /i/ and /u/, can you do nasal /E/ and /O/? If yes, then you could have a lowering system whereby: /i/ + /~/ = [e~] /e/ + /~/ = [E~] /a/ + /~/ = [a~] /o/ + /~/ = [O~] /u/ + /~/ = [o~] -Stephen (Steg) "You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there." ~ _jonathan livingston seagull_