Re: Ayeri: Longer text & Sound example

Carsten Becker wrote:
...
> The soundfile is accessible at
> www.beckerscarsten.de/conlang/ayeri/sounds/xmp_northwind[1].mp3
> <http://www.beckerscarsten.de/conlang/ayeri/sounds/xmp_northwind%5B1%5D.mp3>
>
>
> It's 16 sec long! The longest recording that has ever been
> made in Ayeri :-)
>
> Ack, I know that it has too much [aoaeaoiaoe] and
> [nAnggAnggAng] in it. This is due to the grammar in
> most cases and no language sounds 100% beautiful. OK, maybe
> except Tolkien's langs, but he as t3h m45t0r 0f k0nl4n6z
> th4t r0x0rz y00r s0x0rz doesn't count :-P
>
> Enjoy & please comment,
I think it sounds beautiful, especially the poly-/multi-phthongs (i.e.
longer than diphthongs) and the nasals (i.e. the bits you are
criticising).  It is like Elvish without all those [l]s and [T]s.

I suspect that a daughter conlang would take a bit of a walloping, to
get rid of about 20% of the syllables.  Natives *will* abbreviate and
*will* fail to see the beauty of the whole thing in their mission to
communicate.

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BTW, I don't think that "r0x0rz y00r s0x0rz" works in normal English,
only in 133t.   Hmmm... a conlang based on leet, that would be cool:

4ll j00r 8453 4r3 831on6 2 u5!!!!1#!@!!
all 2P.POS base.PL be.3P.PL own-by/control-by (etc; I can't do glosses.)
We own/have control of all your tools/resources.

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