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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Gareth Wilson</b>
on <!--date-->8:17 7/3/02
<p>In reply to: <a href="452.html">Vocabulary Creation?!?</a> posted by Matt</b> on 17:01 7/1/02
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I do a lot of random word creation for my languages, and I've found one
problem is the words can end up resembling English words or comic-book
sound effects, and sounding silly. Considering that Dutch contains
/zorg/ , /ik/ and /mui/, and the Japanese word for "restitution" is
/fukkyu/, this shouldn't really be a problem, but it still bothers me.
One solution is to make the phonological constraints tighter- get rid of
all or most of the final consonants and cut down on consonant clusters
and you'll reduce the resemblance to English.
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>Good point... another idea is to make sure the phonology isn't much
like English. Introduce a few unusual consonants. The Roman alphabet
also, I think, makes it all too easy to have just 5 vowels.
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