Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

Listening to The Ghosts of N-Space... it's weird to have a Doctor Who story that explicitly states that there is an afterlife, and that ghosts really are dead people coming back to try and fix what went wrong.

@DialMforMara we'll see, then!

@DialMforMara oh! how so?

I've now ordered Bernice Summerfield Series 1... hopefully I enjoy it

Any thoughts? Does this feel natural?

So, here's my idea: historically, the affix /nɯ-/ was attached to the front of nouns to form the plural, and because this contains /ɯ/ (a back vowel) the rest of the word is forced to be all back vowels (because of vowel harmony).

so (originally), to pluralise /pɛɬá/, you would say /nɯpɤɬʌ́/

But hundreds of years of language change meant that the /nɯ/ ended up being dropped, and the only difference between singular and plural is the vowels inside.

In real life languages with complex vowel changes, these were historically created by a affix that, after several sound changes, was dropped at some point.

So, in order for my vowel harmony system to actually exist, it can't have occurred intentionally – it must have been the consequence of a historical affix.

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