Re: Digest 2 Apr
| From: | jesse stephen bangs <jaspax@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 3, 2001, 22:25 |
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Muke Tever sikayal:
> > I like phonology, but I don't know enough about historical phonology to
> > be entirely comfortable with the sound-changes I devise.
>
> Hehe. My langs tend to have regular but likely-implausible sound changes.
I don't know. There's some pretty weird stuff out there, like s > r,
which is attested multiple times, but which I can't justify in my own
mind.
Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
"If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are
perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in
frightful danger of seeing it for the first time."
--G.K. Chesterton
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