Re: The 30-Minute Conlang: A Challenge or two
| From: | <jcowan@...> | 
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 16, 2003, 22:27 | 
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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".
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