Re: Why conlang

Seeing as I haven't said hello yet, I'd better do it now so, Hi!

Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> wrote:

> >Some of us started conlanging as a natural progression from
> >relexification at an early age.
>
> What's relexification? (Sorry, I'm confused!)
It means disposing of a language's vocabulary and putting in your own in its
place. That's what most people do in their first naive attempts at a conlang.
There's nothing wrong with that though, everybody does it at least once.

> Hehe. I haven't really finished any conlangs, ever, but they've
> never really been that complex. Not yet, anyway. I'm still
> experimenting and learning and all.
> Well, if you don't want the Indo-Europeanisms, then you could
> find a way to edit them out, right? Probably?
My first conlang, ternAru, started out as a relexification of English and stayed
like that for a while until I started to do some real messing with it. The
biggest stages of change were (a) When it got a (rather complicated) case
system, became Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) and the names of the pronouns got
shuffled, and (b) when I decided to play with the case system to give a way of
indicating the focus of a sentence - I ended up creating a trigger system
without knowing or having heard of one before. When I found out what one was, I
was quite chuffed with myself.

ternAru is quite different now from what it used to be. Now, if only I could organise my notes...

K.

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