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Re: Newbie says hi

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Friday, November 8, 2002, 19:33
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 06:53:29PM +0000, Andreas Johansson wrote:
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> Conlangs have a way of developing ways unforseen by the conlanger don't > they?
Yep.
> It was certainly not my intention that Steianzh should end up with its > somewhat byzantine orthography, which's steadily acreted weirdities. And I > accept no responsibility for the instrumental and possessives case endings' > failure to collapse as planned*.
[snip] And I've been intending to "fix" Ebisedian's vowel gradation system. However, try as I may, not only has it refused to be fixed, but it is now showing signs of returning to a previous, more complex system which I had tried to brush aside and simplify. For example, one of the complexities was the vowel shifts that happen in the conveyant case -- in the simplified system, all vowels in the word were supposed to shift toward middle vowels. However, with the growth of the lexicon past the 400 mark a few weeks ago, I'm starting to get words that just don't sound "right". Instead, they sound better if I revert to the old system which would only apply this vowel change to the initial and final vowels, but leave the middle ones (more-or-less) intact. Furthermore, now there seems to be a tendency for the stressed syllable in the conveyant case to *not* undergo any change, even if it is in a position that would've shifted under either system. T -- Unlearning is a great learning.

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