Re: New Strategy

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> From: lblissett [mailto:blissett@OPTONLINE.NET]
> > 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.:)

I made similar mistakes (too much english, as it were). It proved to
very painful to clear up the english-isms, after I realized that it was
an issue.  Since originally, I didn't set out to make a language, and
wasn't conscious of language differences at the time, it was probably
inevitable.

And yes, it proved rather tedious altering the entire lexicon, (although
it went faster than I thought it was going at the time). I'm not sure
I'm happy with it yet.  I want to study some more.  Hopefully, the
result of my studying won't be "this is totally wrong, I'll redo
it..again."