Re: Newbie says hi

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 06:53:29PM +0000, Andreas Johansson wrote:
[snip]
> 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

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