Re: Aesthetics

Matahaniya ang Edgard Bikelis <bikelis@...>:

> Hi!
Manyang!

> 1) On phonology, good vowels are [a@eEioOuy];
I like to keep it simple. Though I guess Ayeri's phonology
is a bit too stable with just /A a: E e: I i O o U u m n N p
b t d k g v s h r l j/, however I don't see any need to have
some nifty sound changes or at least massive allophony.

> not sure
> about nasals.
This Hindi recording I have is quite nice actually. French
exaggerates a little bit sometimes, but it sounds fine to me
in Hindi. Other than that, Ayeri's phonology appeals very
much to my sense of aesthetics.

> 2) On morphology, I can't help liking indoeuropean
> morphology, but the more regular the better. Ancient
> Greek is a mess, not so Latin, Sanskrit just a bit. I
> can't think about much more here...
I'm biased towards IE, since the only languages I can speak
are German, English and French. But I don't really see why
that should be a problem. The only problem I have with my
morphology is that it's maybe a little bit too regular in
most places, though there have crept in some unplanned
ideosyncracies (see the "weird verbs" thread) only by using
the langauge.

> Did anyone here ever wrote an 'aesthetic credo' before
> starting a conlang? I think it's exactly what I will do,
> and then redo everything.
No, I just wanted to make A. sound reminiscent of SEA langs.
It has grown a bit into another undefined direction, but
other than that I didn't have any 'design goals' like
Henrik. I just wanted it to sound consistent, so not any
possible combination of sounds is a possible word.

> (After an epiphany on φθάνω, χθές and the like.)
Well, for me it's just pangalang (agt.), pangalas (pat.),
pangalena (gen.), pangalyam (ben.), pangalisa (cau./comit.),
pangaleri (inst.), but my conlang isn't related to PIE
anyway ;-)

Regards
Carsten

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Palayena, Nankyu 5, 2317 ya 23:06:39 pd
Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 06:41:09 pm