A Thought Occurs RE: Sound Change Games

[Man in Space]

I was just posting in the Sound Change Game when I kind of had a thought.

The one I posted was meant to partly echo the infamous Slavic metathesis. It struck me when I was trying to create a plausibly narrow-in-scope sound change without being hyperfocused. I used “T” as a shorthand for coronal consonants but it got me to thinking about the format.

Generally, we seem to have settled on one word at a time. Otto or foxcatdog (and a few others I think, but them two are kind of the de facto game masters) thinks of something interesting and we go from there.

One wonders, however, if maybe running a handful of parallel words might produce some interesting results (and creative sound changes). You can apply conditional changes that target one or more entries, the gist kind of being to give a richer picture and a larger sample size. Maybe something really outstanding will inspire some people on the board after seeing the mechanism in action.

Yea? Nay?

[Moose-tache]

Here you go: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

[foxcatdog]

We've already done that a bunch of times. Sometimes people comply sometimes they don't.

[Man in Space]

We've already done that a bunch of times. Sometimes people comply sometimes they don't.

That's the point of the new thread.