Re: Droppin' Ds

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>I always liked that one, and reminds me of Andalusian especially.
Same here. I have noticed that the d's between vowels and in the final
position seem to drop, from what I can gather from Mexican speakers .
Also, I just like the sound of the /au/ diphthong. It just seems pleasant
to me
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>Probably not natural, but sounds neat! - Lo audio, ella?
I liked that idea also. I just thought it sounded nice when I thought of
it. However it's probably not natural, as Ray pointed out (i can pronounce
/ts/ initially, so that wasnt the problem.)
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Question: since this con-romance-lang will probably follow the patterns of
say....Spanish, would it be odd for au to have survived? As in, would
there be any reason for me keeping it? From that book "From Latin to
Romance in Sound Charts" (good book, it was VERY handy for me in figuring
out many of these rules) , it seems like all the western romance langs
went with au > o (it's too bad they didnt give Romanian examples)
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>Are esses droppt elsewhere? I remember a Puertoriquense in one of
>my intermediate Spanish classes did an oral report on how his
>family celebrated Crihmeh (Christmas). With the commercial American
>aspect and Santa Clause; and the more Hispanic aspect of Church
>going and religious feasts.
Hmm, i'm not sure I want to do that. I like the sound of s, just thought
it was interesting to drop it when in VL it was initial and another
consonant followed. I may however just keep it.
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>I think it will be a pleasant sounding language, thus far, even
>though I never liked the /ts/ sound. Let's hear more soon!
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>Padraic.
Thanks, Padraic. I need more time, that's my problem. But, i think i like
what I have done so far (and it's all tentative anyway), so, hopefully if
I can scrape up enough time, i'll try to post more of the rules for this
lang.
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Oh yes, another rule I was thinking of is:

- nn becomes /Nj/: anno > añgo  /aNjo/  . Of course I have absolutely no
reasoning for that change, it's mostly just a fun sound, I think.