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Re: Conlang Irregularities

From:Orjan Johansen <oerjan@...>
Date:Sunday, March 7, 1999, 19:02
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Sally Caves wrote:

> I know that one of the difficult tasks of getting a conlang up and > running is to make the rules 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 and realism? Or maybe you don't do it so > deliberately... maybe it just happens and you decide to leave it be?
On the contrary, I want my language to be quite irregular from the beginning, which is probably one reason why I never really get anywhere with it... Greetings, =D8rjan.