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Re: [Ladekwa] Re: happy with Ladekwa as is

In a message dated 10/18/2005 2:42:07 PM Central Standard Time, grose12@hidden.email writes:


While I've long admired the design principles at work in Ladekwa (and
Katanda, Nasendi, etc.), I've always thought all iterations make
really ugly-sounding tongue-twister words, and that the semivowels are
at the heart of it.  (Maybe I should've spoken up about it before now.)

Maybe it's just me, but the SV combinations seem much more
tongue-tripping in succession than the VS ones.  (Though I'll admit
I'm no linguist.)


The more I think about Ladekwa's sound system, the more I like it just the way it is, tongue-tripping and all.  It's coherent, consistent, and the individual sounds are easy to pronounce.  It's my unfounded belief that the difficulty in pronunciation will disappear as a matter of getting used to it.   

stevo