Re: Relay using somebody else's conlang (Was: Re: Fifth Conlang Translation Relay finished!)

 >From: Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>
 >
 >> I'm a huge proponent of people using others langs. It is really cool to
 >> have someone else use your language (*Really Cool*) It is interesting to
 >> see what another mind does with it. It can be shocking too, when they
 >> explore or discover a facet that you didn't realize was there until they
 >> found it.
 >
 >It can also be a pain in the butt when others ask you for grammatical
 >or syntactical features which you hadn't thought about previously, or
 >when they uncover contradictions you hadn't noticed :)

        Yep.  I created a mailing list just for Vaior so I could keep
track of the various oddities and questions a friend of mine kept
coming up with.  Reading through the back posts can be quite
interesting.  My favorite example is related to the existential
prefixes that Vaior has:

        http://www.execpc.com/~wsannis/vaior/grammar.html#existence

These themselves came out of a discussion from my friend learning the
language.  At any rate, he started prefixing these to verbs, which are
already tensed, and asked me what it meant.  If we ever come up with a
way to travel in time -- I mean not in the customary direction -- then
Vaior is ready for use. :)

        I do feel strongly that apart from being Really Cool, having
someone else use your languages helps you to appreciate more what
you've done, both the good and the bad.  It also exposes some of your
creative predispositions.

--
wm

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