Re: A phonology

Quoting Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:

> Staving Thomas Wier:
> >Quoting Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:
> >
> >Why [&] as the basic phone of /a/?  It's possible, but far more
> >common would be to have basic [a] or [A] with conditioned alternation
> >with [&].
>
> I like [&]!
Good enough.

> > > Coda consonants be any of the following stops
> > > p    b    t    d    c    gc   k    g     q   qh
> > > [p]  [b]  [t]  [d]  [c]  [J\] [k]  [g]   [q]
> > > Or any of the fricatives
> > > ph   bh   þ    ð    sh   j    lh   x     gh    h
> > > [p\] [b\] [T]  [D]  [S]  [Z]  [K]  [x]  [G]    [h]
> >
> >This is a very unnatural phonology.  [...]
> >(Of course, you may want it that way.  Certainly, your proposal
> >for morphosyntax is almost certainly without precedent, also.)
>
> 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.)

> (PS, I see from Richard Kennaway's site that Degaspregos is withdrawn.
> Why?)
Degaspregos was my first conlang which I now look back on
as deeply naive. It is no longer of fundamental interest to me,
though it seems to have interested many others, up to and including
that cult in Poland.

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