Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct

Do a search for "Margo's Magical Letter Page," and "Robin Alcott" --
that should turn you up some goodies.  Follow the links.
Phonosemanticists are a close knit crowd and link to each other. :)


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Paul Bennett wrote:

> J Barefoot>>>>>>
> On a related but far-fetched subject: At a very early stage of deveplopment
> of Asiteya, I had created a verb "yasan" - to dwell. Months later, having
> forgotten about its existence, I needed a word for house. Rolling sounds
> around on my tongue for a while, I found "yasi" tasted just right.
> Unrelated events of creation, related words. It makes me think, perhaps
> these languages are already fully formed, deep in the subconscious, waiting
> for the intellect to discover them.  Has anyone else had expereinces like
> this?
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> That's the questionable but enjoyable theory of "phonosemantics".
> Someone on the list was kind enough to post some URLs when I asked about
this,
> unfortunately I appear to have lost track of them.
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