Re: Another weird idea!

Jim Henry wrote at 2005-09-08 13:29:12 (-0400)
 > On 9/6/05, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
 >
 > > let's say that I have a conlang in which all the phonemes can be realised in
 > > (at least) two ways (from which) a consonant and a vowel and that the fact
 > > that it is realised as a vowel or a consonant depends of what it follows
 > > (precedes could work too)
 >
 > Someone has done this before in another conlang, but I don't
 > think it was very thoroughly developed.  I'd like to see what you
 > come up with if you keep developing this.
 >
 > I don't remember the name of the aforementioned conlang,
 > but it was a loglang/engelang, and if I recall correctly it had
 > 16 phonemes each with a vocalic and a consonantal allophone.
 > There was also something about a binary tree lexicon, with
 > eight one-phoneme words, four of the other phonemes reserved
 > for starting two-phoneme words, two of the remaining phonemes
 > reserved for starting three-phoneme words, and the two remaining
 > phonemes used in some more complex way to form words of
 > four or five phonemes and maybe longer.
 > So it had self-segregating morphemes.
 > Hopefully this will be enough for someone else with a better
 > memory to identify it.
 >

Aha, I know what you're talking about.  Plan B.

http://www.rickharrison.com/language/plan_b.html

  "By providing both a vowel and a consonant
  pronunciation for each letter, and using
  them alternately, we can pronounce arbitrary
  strings of letters without difficulty.  This is
  important:  It modularizes our language design
  by decoupling our word-encodings from the
  details of the human vocal tract, letting us
  concentrate on other issues."

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