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Yiuel Raumbesrairc wrote: Other regional [Japanese] dialects are not as marked, but using one will make a character sound old.

Err... you ever heard Aomoriben? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Q5ZRcl8OQ
I'd say the dialect disparity in Japan is very strong, and quite often used in literature for effect.

Great. Thanks guys.

Serafín wrote:

GBR wrote:Notation question!
What's the standard way to write [stop][same stop]->[just one of dem stops]? Or is it generally assumed that gemination doesn't occur unless you specifically say it does?

p: > p, I'd think.

Where : represents gemination? So one could have the general rule C:->C ?

Notation question!
What's the standard way to write [stop][same stop]->[just one of dem stops]? Or is it generally assumed that gemination doesn't occur unless you specifically say it does?

I'm on the train now, so this will be brief, but my first impressions of the very beginning are this - less chat, more business. I'd simply put the quote in with no explanation. That the grammar is a conlang and you spent three years etc etc, that all goes in a cover letter, not the grammar itself. ...