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Re: The 30-Minute Conlang: A Challenge or two

From:<jcowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 16, 2003, 22:27
Gary Shannon scripsit:

> The rules, as if they are not obvious enough, are to > put any consonant you choose before every vowel, and > any vowel you choose after every consonant.
Which gives it a phonology like a twisted kind of Babm [bO.A.bO.mu]:
> Finally, long words can be optionally divided into two > shorter words ("window" -> "win dow")
ObPedanticNote: Historically, of course, Eng. window < ON vind-augr 'wind-hole', so it should really be segmented "wind ow". -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders." --Hal Abelson