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Re: creating words (was Re: "Language Creation" in your conlang)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Saturday, November 15, 2003, 17:11
Nik Taylor scripsit:

> I think you can get away with leaving it incomplete. Come up with a > basic phonoloyg,
I know this is a typo, but I just wanted to register what an admirable word you have created here. The familiar Greek prefix "phono-" coupled to the utterly un-Greek and un-English "loyg" -- /oi/ has a very restricted distribution in English -- gives the whole a marvelously conlangy feel. -- Henry S. Thompson said, / "Syntactic, structural, John Cowan Value constraints we / Express on the fly." jcowan@reutershealth.com Simon St. Laurent: "Your / Incomprehensible http://www.reutershealth.com Abracadabralike / schemas must die!" http://www.ccil.org/~cowan