Re: easy sounds

--- Tristan McLeay <conlang@...>
wrote:

> On 6 Jan 2005, at 1.24 pm, Elliott Lash wrote:
>
> > --- Muke Tever <hotblack@...> wrote:
> >
> >> # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
<big snip>
> As for creating a language everyone can say---
<snip>

It seems to me the way to build a conlang that
everyone can speak easily is to NOT specify exactly
how each letter is to sound and let each speaker find
their own comfortable way to pronounce it.  That way
the conlang would have as many dialects and accents as
any widespread natlang, and yet they would all be
mutually intelligible.

If one person reads "Di kopu ele ablo dua trecho im di
dentu, eh?" with an australian accent and another says
it with an Italian  accent, and another with a German
accent, it doesn't matter. They will all understand
each other, and they will all find it easy to
pronounce. (The example is from my language Mutande
Palu which, when I speak it, sounds a bit like
Swedish.)

(This might be more an auxlang issue, but if a conlang
has NO native speakers then the pronunciation should
not be too closely specified anyway because people
will pronounce it their own way depending on their own
background anyway.)

--gary

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