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re: [romconlang] pseudo-Latin "hinges"



Steg, 
You've quoted the below from 'The Romulan Way'. I love Diane Duane's
'Rihannsu' books!!! I heard she has a computer programme to come up with
words in 'Rihannsu'. Apparently all you need to do is punch in a
phonological profile and the programme will spit out words and words of
the alien language. 
Such a programme would be wonderful for developing a conlang that is not
based on an existing language. I've found when constructing a language
from scratch, you tend to repeat a lot of sound combinations. A
programme would do the phonological complexity of one's own original
idea justice and confront you big time with what you've actually
conjured up by constructing a con-phonology.
Does anyone know anything about this? Please remember, where computers
are concerned talk to me as if I were a five year old. All I can do is
press buttons, I don't know jack shit about programming- HELP! 

<-Stephen (Steg)
<  "Enthrone your pasts:
<     this done, fire and old blood
<     will find you again:
<   better hearts' breaking
<   than worlds'."
<      ~ 'the last song, S'task's farewell',
<        by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood<

 


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