Re: Interjections
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 6, 2005, 23:49 |
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:14:04PM -0000, caeruleancentaur wrote:
> I was working on my Senyecan vocabulary today (my favorite part of
> conlanging) and I came upon some of the interjections. I wondered
> who else might have some interjections in their conlang. I'm
> wondering if different emotions call forth similar phonemes, e.g., is
> pain always "ow"?
By no means. The Spanish and Italian for "ow" is [a'i], for instance.
Plus, of course, interjections follow the basic phonology of their
languages - ISTR that the French equivalent of the stereotypical
"oof" (e.g. getting punched in the stomach) has either a [2] or a [9] in
it.
-Marcos
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