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Re: A phonology

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Monday, July 28, 2003, 14:45
Staving Thomas Wier:

> > The single part of speech grammar that I came up with was so weird, that > > the idea begged for a similarly weird phonology and morphology to go with > > it. This seems to be developing into my "language of ultimate perversity" > > project, with the emerging design goal being "how many universals can I > > throw out of the window and get away with it?" Certainly, If I've managed > > to defy anadewism, that's a major achievement for a early sketch. > >I have no problem as long as this is the stated goal. > >(What's Anadewism? I'm an oldtimer here, but some of the new "lingo" here >is not always self-evident. I'm assuming this is related to maggelity >somehow.)
A Natlang's Already Done it, Except Worse. A maxim commonly quoted with regard to perverse features of conlangs.