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Re: help with starting out

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Saturday, July 1, 2000, 2:45
CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Sounds and phonology and phonetics and such have always facinated me, so >I'm enjoying this a great deal. > >Maybe a new sort of relay, where the first message is in a conlang (or >maybe even in English, or some other language) and it is given just with >a phonological transcription, and each person has to adapt it into their >language's phonology, in the manner that a speaker of their conlang >would percieve it when spoken by a speaker of the Conlang that preceeded >it in the relay. It'd be fun to see if the person who started it could >comprehend the final version, and which languages changed it the most.
Hmm, that would be interesting I think. It's interesting to see how speakers of different languages would change sounds in foreign words.
> >Anyways, just a thought. > >Also, are the new Saalangal webpages up yet?
Not yet, I plan to work on them tonight. _________________________________________________________ This ain't a yes, this ain't a no, just do your thang, we'll see how it goes