Re: Futurese

hehe, discussing an IAL sketch! fun ahead!
Javier wrote:
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>The main goal of futurese is to be as culturally neutral,
>logical and easy to use and learn as possible.
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Good thinking. the contrary would be a major flaw, methink.

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>1) Structure: ISOLATING
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Excellent!--i mean: "most good!"--or "good most!"?

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>2) Script: standard 26-letter ROMAN ALPHABET
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Another bold deed.

>3) Phoneme chart:
>--------------------------------------------------------
>.............|. labial .| dent-alve | palat-velar | gl |
>-------------------------------------------------------|
>plosives: ...| p .......|. t .......|......... k .|. ' |
>.............| b .......|. d .......|......... g .|....|
>fricatives: .|...... f .|....... s .|. c .........|. h |
>.............|...... v .|....... z .|. x .........|....|
>nasals: .....| m .......|. n .......|......... q .|....|
>liquids: ....|..........|. l .......|.............|....|
>.............|..........|. r .......|.............|....|
>semivowels: .|..........|...........|. j ..... w .|....|
>-------------|-----------------------------------------|
>vowels: .....|........................ i . y . u ..... |
>.............|.......................... e . o ....... |
>.............|............................ a ......... |
>--------------------------------------------------------
>(p, t and k, aspirated; y, schwa)
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except for chinese, japanese, spaniards and frenchmen, i think everyone will be
able to pronounce all that easily.;-)

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>4) Syllable structure: (C)V(C)
>(glottal stop inherent in syllable-initial vowels)
>5) Basic vocabulary: MONOSYLLABIC
>6) Vocabulary sources:
>(a) onomatopoeic / expressive
>(b) "inspired" by existing languages (Lojban's method)
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Viv Vorlin! Don't forget to insert a vowel between two CVC words. japanese and
others will do so anyway--actually they will do that after each and every
consonant except for /n/. pronouncing CVC takes roughly the same time as
pronouncing CVCV and pronouncing CVCCVC as pronouncing CVCVCVCV---the CC
sequence is only more difficult to keep unaltered. btw, what about
parseability/self-segregation? i'm a maniac of selfsegregation. my conlang Tunu
is absolutely selfsegregative without the help of any pitch, accent, stress or
glo'ttal sto'p. not that it's an IAL, but i've had nightmare that i could listen
to my conlang yet would not be able to parse words. all of a sudden i am
sweating and panicking at this thought: "would the ultimate IAL be not
self-segregationist?"

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>7) Right-branching
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You mean "boy good" instead of "good boy"?--good boy!

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>8) Basic sentence structure: theme - predicator - rheme
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You lost me here: i would think that "theme vs. rheme" is not on the same level
as "predicate vs. argument". you can combine them, though.

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>Any comment? :-)
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Da luk gud ;-) i do like this kind of conlang. now, what about subclauses,
adverbs, etc.? hurry up! and don't ask for comments: just proceed. nobody here
will agree with your options anyway.
Mathias
http://takatunu.free.fr/tunugram.htm