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Old 08-May-2008, 05:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Delvo View Post
Why would they all need to end the same way? I don't know of any language in which all nouns, or even all names, must have any phonetic traits in common.
I know of at least one (Esperanto), though it's kind of a special case. But it goes to show that although natural languages don't do this, people who invent languages (and people who talk about constellation names) sometimes assume that it is a desirable feature.
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