En réponse à David Stokes <dstokes@...>:
>
> My name is David Stokes. I've been reading the list for a couple of
> weeks now, but this is my first official post.
>
Welcome to the list David!
>
> Diom is an inflectional language, with a free word order, sort of like
> Latin or Greek. It was made for a fantasy game world. It is not meant to
> be related to any RW languages, although French speakers (and I am not a
> member of that group, by the way) might recognize some of the
> vocabulary. One of the early source of vocabulary was heraldry terms,
> many of which are from Old French.
As a Native French speaker, I indeed recognized some of the vocabulary (like
dorman-: to sleep, ami-: to love and gros: big). But I like the twists you gave
to it (like amar: friend, a nice shift in meaning :) ).
> It is not finished, but then it sounds like conlangs are never finished.
>
Of course not! A conlang, like any language, is an endless territory with for
ever yet-to-explore places.
> Please take a look and let me know what you think of it.
>
For what I saw, I like it. It looks really like a classical language like Latin.
> One thing I found when working on Diom is that I was too close to it. I
> repeatedly found myself paralyzed when I'd come up with something, then
> say "No, thats not right." and erase it. I was making it up so it would
> seem like I could do anything I wanted. But it felt like there was an
> already existing correct language out there and I was just trying to
> find out what it was. Does this happen to the rest of you ?
>
Very often.
> So now I have decided to set Diom aside for a while and work on some
> other projects. These will give me chance to try out some other ideas.
> Then maybe when I go back to Diom I can progress a little more easily. I
> will discuss these other projects in future posts.
>
Please do!
Christophe.