Re: Llirine: How to creat a language

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, [iso-8859-1] Cheng Zhong Su wrote:

>  --- Andreas Johansson wrote: >
> > What the in the blazing is "nonlinear phonology"?
> > The phonolgy of
> > non-segmental languages or what? (BTW, what is
> > "linear phonology"?) I still
> > don't understand what you mean by "phonetic
> > type"/"one articulation type" -
> > from your description it seems like a syllable. As
> > for the "b" and "e" in
> > "be" being articulated together, they are patently
> > NOT articulated
> > simultaneously if that's what you mean.
> >
> >
> > Andreas
> Answer:If you can link that web page, the best answer
> may be like that, no matter how many syllables or
> 'phonetic types' you have, a tone language speaker
> always give at leat four times such numerous sound
> units and with more sound units we can shorten all the
> words, with shorten words it's more easy to compose
> new words such as if we assign pi=pig; mi=meat then we
> may take off the word 'pork' instead using pimi. We
> can give demonstration that all the current one
> million English words can be translated into just few
> thousand such shorten words. that's to say, once we
> handle these few thousand words, it'll be equal we
> handle the one million words too.
> Su Cheng Zhong
>
So you want to make English more like Chinese.  That's nice.  An
interesting project.  I wish you luck.

Please don't make it tonal, though.  I can do high level, high falling,
low rising just fine.  I just cannot manage the middle-falling-rising tone
at all, and non-toned syllables seem to want to take a random tone.  I can
manage if I wave my arms around and conduct myself, but try flailing about
while talking some time.  You get strange looks.



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