Re: YAC: Widse -- a conlang based on Ygyde

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

>Not as much as it seems to reach the onsets :) .
>
Oh, that's just because I'm evil.

>>Oh indeed! But considering how evil I am, where's my sidekick?
>>
>>
>Well, actually, you are *my* sidekick! Before you can reach my level of
>linguistic evil, you'll have to work a bit more ;))) . Mwahahahahahahahaha!!!!
>
Oh, now that's just unfair. I came up with Etabnanni before you publicly
revived Maggel! You can't usurp my position! That'd be... that'd be ...
plain evil! I won't stand for it!

>>Orthographically, yes. But having the same thing evolve different
>>ways?
>>
>>
>Look at French, which evolved Latin /e:/ into /wa/ or /E/ without rhyme or
>reason ;))) (there is *really* no rule).
>
Oh, okay. If a natlang does it, it must be alright. Let's have a
sometimes rhyme-and-reasonless evolutionary pattern! (Now I'm never
going to be able to turn my knowledge of the evolution from Ygyde to
Widse into something other people can deal with...)

>Well, you've indeed reinvented Tibetan, although Tibetan is quite monosyllabic,
>contrary to Etabnanni :) .
>
Well... you just haven't seen that much of Etabnanni. It tends to be a
nice mix of mono- and bisyllabic, actually. Remember: I have this
aversion to onsets :)

>>Maybe Andrew did better than he knew ;)
>>
>>
>LOL! I only wish that Maggel would be Proto-World ;))) .
>
Well, what're you waiting for? Design a timemachine and teach it to the
evolving hominids!

Tristan.

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