Re: Conlang Irregularities

Sally Caves wrote:

> of grammar.  How many of you established
> conlangers, after having done that, deliberately
> introduce irregularities and contradictions into
> your conlang with an eye to giving it dimension
> In other words, how many exceptions to the rules
> you' ve made will you tolerate?  One of the
> criticisms leveled at invented languages is that
> they are too regular.  Does that bother you?
>
My main language is Nova and it is intended to be regular.  I allow
some variation in the order of morphemes during word order but is
about it.
Feorran on the other hand has irregular verbs, homonyms and words
whose animacy varies with the dialect.  It was intended to be more
realistic than Nova in that regard.
If my Ur-Adena project ever really gets off the ground, it will
have irregularities on the same scale as Feorran.
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