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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Jan van Steenbergen" <ijzeren_jan@y...> wrote: > --- Adam Walker skrzypszy: > > > Very nice. I love the way Wenedyk hovers just at the > > edge of intelligiblity. > > Thank you. > > > You scan the text alternating between Huh?? and Ah-ha! > > Ah, but that is exactly the feeling Carrajena gives me, too! Same > with Fortunatian, BTW, although the latter has definitely a higher > huh-level. That's largely because the horizontal vowel-merges are completely counterintuitive to anyone with other Romance-language experience. i, u > y [i\] e, o > e [@] or [8] i: > i [i] u: > u [u] o: > au [o] e: > e [e] a: > a [a] The Etruscan and Guanche words, however, don't help. > > I think the Huh?? experience is mostly the result of the somewhat > merciless orthography, in combination with some particular sound > changes. The Aha-Erlebnis is mostly the result of the fact that at > least 98 % of the words are taken straightly from Latin. > > > My reader is Yahoo! > <snip> BTW, you still have a Chinese character in your .sig, Adam! ;) > > Jan