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Re: Retranslation

From:Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 20, 2002, 2:36
Filip sekalge
> How do you avoid this problem [of having all valid combinations
assigned meaning]? There are several methods. First, you could introduce new phones. I never do this unless the language is in its infancy. Second, you could loosen the syllabic style. This would force you to heavily revise the words you already have so that it doesn't look like two languages smashed together. Third, you could make longer words. This is the easiest. If you have 1,000 possible combinations (I have a language with about that), perhaps you could add a syllable to some. I'd have a method to this; for instance, I could absolve an initial syllable, making it go from [so] to [sano] to draw an example from my twisted brain.