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Re: Improved (Short) Ygyde

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 16, 2003, 5:32
Mike Ellis wrote:
> Andrew Nowicki wrote: > >>Perhaps addition of 3 letter roots (CVV = consonant-vowel-vowel) >>would improve the way it sounds. Maybe there should be two >>alternative sets of roots: one set are the existing two letter >>CV roots, while the other set is made of CVV and CCV roots. > > ONE set of roots will do fine, but you can extend the number of possible > roots to have BOTH CV and CVV syllables. The original complaints with Ygyde > were that its paucity of roots required words to be too vaguely defined, > thus defeating the purpose of building meaning-based words since the words > had to be memorised as wholes anyway. > >>Examples of CCV roots: gla, knu, mne, dwo, psi, sky. The 3 >>letter roots would replace two consecutive 2 letter roots in >>some 7 letter words. Obviously, there are 90x90 combinations >>of the CV-CV roots, so the CVV and CCV roots cannot replace >>all the CV-CV combinations. > > A compromise between adding the whole slew of CCV roots would be to allow > SOME clusters. But since the CVV roots add so many, you probably wouldn't > need to have any.
It might be easiest to allow CVN as well as CV syllables, where N is a nasal homorganic to the next consonant. That avoids difficult initial clusters, while doubling the number of available roots.