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.
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