Re: Language changes, spelling reform (was Conlangea Dreaming)

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:

> > OC, since I have to revise the ancestor-language
>
> How come?
I knew very little about phonology when I devised the sound set.  Heck, I
still know very little about phonology, but I know a bit more than I
did.  Plus, the ancestor-language (Aragis) is Really Ugly, so I want to
make it something that I could at least live with myself for making up.

> Another thing about Utakassí spelling - there is a constant debate over
> the proper balance between phonemic and morphophonemic.  Some, for
> instance, do not indicate predictable assimilations.  Whereas the
[snip]

How wonderfully complex!  Which spelling do you use for your own notes,
or do you keep them all?

> P.S., is every syllable of your name equally stressed?
What is this stress of which you speak?  =^)

Actually, for the longest time I thought Korean had no stress, because I
had no clue that stress could be indicated by pitch.

If you're using /i yun ha/, /i/ has a slightly higher pitch as far as I
can tell.

If you're using /yun ha/, then /yun/ has a higher pitch.

And someone who knows more Korean than I do, feel free to correct me.  :-p

YHL