Now, why is this important? Well, what are allophones in one language may not be in another. Those individual variations are allophones. As long as you're within reasonable bounds, you can make a lot of sounds that are a little different from each other, but they're still the same basic sound, or phoneme. You may notice that as long as you don't go too far, it still sounds like "s" to you - even though it may sound a bit different, it's still the same basic sound. Now, while still hissing to yourself, vary it a bit move it forwards and backwards perhaps lower your tongue and raise it again. You'll notice that the sound is coming from the tip of your tongue, which is resting flat against the roof of your mouth. Say "ssss" to yourself, "s" as in "snake" or "soon". This way you can have a language that sounds like itself, and not like English. To avoid this problem, it's much better to have an idea of the phonemes that you have, and make up words according to those. So when you're conlanging, first consider this: what phonemes do you have? If you just make up words on the fly, eventually you're going to use up all of the phonemes of English (and no more), giving you a phonology that's precisely the same as English. Furthermore, "x" is two sounds, "k" and "s", while "sh" is one sound - just "sh", not "s" and "h". Note that we're talking about sounds here, not letters, so all the silent letters and irregular spellings are ignored.
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