Re: Hello? It's working?
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 4, 2001, 3:19 |
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On Monday, December 3, 2001, at 10:00 , Christopher B Wright wrote:
> My name is Christopher Wright. I'm fifteen and have been interested in
> conlangs for about two years so far. I've been lurking for a few weeks,
> trying to post (thanks, Yoon Ha Lee, for helping me), and I have to say
> that (humor) you're the craziest group of people that I've ever seen
> since I left the institution(/humor).
>
Readin' you loud and clear. Glad to see you're able to post.
> My first successful language is Sturnan. It's based on Indo-European and
> is largely isolating. I chose a moderately restrictive syllabic style.
>
What's the phonology/phonotactics?
> I'm also working on Runda, an even more restrictive inflectional language
> with a small alphabet (13 consonants, 6 vowels; Sturnan has 16 and 7
> respectively). I make words by translating the Bible and the works of
> Shakespeare.
>
Is there a one-to-one mapping between Bible/Shakespeare words and
Runda/Sturnan vocabularies, JOOC?
Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofveils.com]
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