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Re: Toki Pona survey

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Sunday, October 17, 2004, 23:43
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 18:21:26 +0200, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> I dislike: > - sound, as with most minimal phonologies. It has this typical > minimal phonology sound. :-) > > I blame no-one, I think it's inherent: I tried to do minimal > phonology langs as well, but I could not get rid of that very > same typical sound unless I'd have /E, y, 1, M, q, ?\, h, X/ or > something...
I dunno, to me it seems that Toki Pona's phonology is "in character". It puts me in mind of something spoken somewher small, isolated, and Polynesian. Making use of the allophones helps. (Today I found I overwhelmingly preferred ["tembo] to ["tenpo]. "Tembo-ni-la, sina wile e seme?") *Muke! -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/

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