Re: Woody or tinny?

on 5/15/01 5:19, Bjorn Kristinsson at bjornkri@HI.IS wrote:

>
> This made me wonder, people on this list generally seem to have a preference
> for how a word should sound, and then I presume there must be a preference
> for how they should NOT sound. So, can you name me some words (natlang
> probably, conlang if you've got them) that you find particularly ugly?
>
> Bring 'em if you've got 'em
>
> Bjorn
Generally speaking consonents of the same degree of closure should not occur
in pairs (let alone triplets).  That is ovoid putting a stop next to another
stop or an affricate next to another affricate or a nasal next to another
nasal, etc....

Thus "act", "fact", "sixth", "world", "furled", "hurled", and so on are all
less than desirable.

Also, consonent clusters involving more than two consonents are tedious.



andy.



PS-there are of course many exceptions....