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Re: easy sounds

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Thursday, January 6, 2005, 4:53
--- 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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