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.