Re: New Strategy

>From: lblissett <blissett@...>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael Martin" <mdmartinmm@...>
>
> >   Ok, I've been having problems getting messages from
> > this list in my main account, so I subscibed via my
> > Yahoo account and maybe this will work better (for now
> > anyway, I'm hoping to get things fixed).
> >
> >   Anyway, after all the responses to my initial post I
> > have learned a few things:
> >
> > 1. I have *much* more to learn.
> > 2. I will be better off *not* trying to use every
> > sound in English, but instead I will start off with
> > *fewer* sounds in my conlang.
>
>            I made this mistake too -- it's not even something I considered
>when I started making it. My language has almost all the same sounds in
>English, plus a good deal more, but I'm not really sure if I should change
>it at this point. There are some sounds I could easily take out (like "b"
>and "z"), but I'd have to go through and alter my entire lexicon, which is
>fairly large. Point being, you're probably saving yourself a lot of trouble
>by considering it now.:)
It occured to me one day that the consonant inventory of my oldest and most
worked-at conlang Tairezazh is a subset of the English one. Now, this'dn't
be that surprising if it had a very small inventory, but it hardly is at 22
consonant phonemes. This assumes your dialect has non-velarized "l" and
trilled "r", also.

The vowels are slightly more un-English: [i e: E a A: O o: u eI aI au oI
oU]. The overall "sound" isn't very like English's in my mind ... should be
making a recording one day and get the opinion of some other conlanger ...

                                                       Andreas

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