>mu is a bilabial nasal and theta is an aspirated voiceless

Because fictional languages are made up.

Some few people have the education and training to invent a realistically detailed language, but unless it actually contributes to the story in a significant way, it's going to be wasted effort.

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>>51378671
You described the sounds "m" and "th".

>>51379176
But anon there's the word "bilabial" in there, isn't that so weird ???
More seriously, OP's complaint is valid, but for the wrong reasons. I yearn for aliens who'd use a wide variety of clicks and very few vowels.

My biggest problem, though, is with writing systems. I can suspend my disbelief for shitty conlangs, but I can't handle "it's the roman alphabet but the symbols are slightly different, this constitutes the alien language".

>>51378671
That's not particularly weird. Fictional languages get weirder (to English speakers) than goddamn Greek.

The interesting thing would be "how do you think about languages spoken by other species that have different mouth structures?" even orks with tusks would mess with things a bit.

>>51379176
OP actually described "m" and most instances of "t" in English. They're still an idiot..

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>>51378671
Because I have no idea what you meant, and I bet you aren't a good enough writer to explain it in an interesting way.

>>51378671
Because nobody wants to waste half an hour talking to an NPC in Morse code.

>>51378671
>it's an "OP really hopes there aren't any people who took a linguistics class in college on the board" day

>>51378671

As it is with many fantasy tropes, Tolkien did it first and he did it best.

What the actual fuck is going on in that pic, OP?

>>51379144
This. Modern languages were developed over literally a hundred thousand years and are continuing to develop now. No one can just make up a language in a few days that even comes close to the nuance and strangeness of what we already have.

>>51381406

A begining

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>>51378671
Mu and theta are some of the less weird sounds that humans have incorporated in their languages. Furthermore, even if you did have some really unusual phonemes in the mix, the specific sounds of a fantasy or alien language are completely meaningless if they don't contribute somehow to the story. Just because Tolkein did it doesn't mean it's worth emulating.

>>51379176

I think the point he's trying to make is that fictional languages are very basic and simple.

The only one I recall off the top of my head was 3.5 draconic which included an Ach sound indicated by an asterix. Usually they don't bother playing with things like an umlaut or enye.

>>51381613

How exactly is mutilating one's ears to be pointed a beginning?

>>51385584

Elf posers chummer.

Welcome to the 6th world.

>>51385687
I bet the guys who did it are going to go through goblinization in 2021. Only a few years now...