Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct
| From: | Bryan Maloney <bjm10@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 2, 1999, 17:14 |
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On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Axiem wrote:
> it, different sounds conjure different images. Note the word love..it is
> not a hard word, it is a soft word..methinks it got that way because of
> association. Kill, maim, destroy, all are kind of 'harsh' sounding,
Maim? Maim? My dear fellow, /meim/ is a very SOFT sounding word. Where
would you put /gIft/ or /gift/? How about the adjectival form of the
German word "Gift"? It's even softer-sounding. This is more in the
realm of pop-philology than really examining language. I'm reminded of
someone in an early linguistics course I took who just WOULD NOT believe
that "ma" did not mean "mother" in every language on earth, no matter how
much the Japanese professor tried to explain things...