Re: Toki Pona survey
| From: | Muke Tever <hotblack@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 17, 2004, 23:43 |
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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!
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