Re: Collaborative conlang - Third time's the charm?

--- On Thu, 10/9/08, Alex Fink <000024@...> wrote:

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> I have to agree with Jim Henry that Kalusa was far more
> successful than most
> collaborative projects.  Where in most projects the newness
> fascination
> wears off people after the first couple weeks and it dies
> on the vine,
> Kalusa made it past this hump and got some dedicated
> crafters; it eventually
> only died because some social-type strife drove most of the
> user community
> away (Philip's (2)).
It will be interesting to see what comes of it.


>
> Oh, a casual comment on the glossing of the placeholder
> lexicon.  I find
> '-ology' / 'study of' as a gloss for -JI a
> bit funny.
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I agree. On the other hand, they are only placeholder words, and should go away
when real words are discovered. In the mean time I was looking for a "quick and
dirty" way of coining a bunch of words for various linguistics topics like
phonology, lexicology, grammar(ology) and syntax(ology). :)

--gary

>
> Alex