tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jun 26 13:41:09 2003
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backwards words
>Also, each phoneme in a language will have a different sound at the
beginning, middle and end of a word. (I forget what these variations of the
same sound are called. Morphemes?) This is why a recording of {ngabwI'}
played backward will sound nothing like {'Iwbang}.
not true. i have recorded backward sentences based on the phonemes all
written in reverse order, and it was still comprehensible when i played it back.
it sure sounded funny though. you can make up a whole new language, in fact,
with totally different grammar and vocabulary, just by speaking the phonemes of
english (or any other language) in reverse order. it can be a fun secret
language. i used to play at this while riding the 'cattle cars' on the way to
the firing range at o-dark-thirty, when i was at basic training.
lay'tel SIvten