Re: New Guy

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> At 10:03 30.11.2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> >According to a hypothesis fairly popular among linguists in my SF
> coniverse,
> >Primitive Azainic - which is effectively unattested thanks to a series of
> >major wars over the planets where it must have been spoken, but
> >reconstructions show to have been suspiciously regular - was either an
> >outright auxlang, or an artificial regularization of some preexisting
> >language.
>
> In fact it is a fact acknowledged by some comparatists
> that seeming regularity is an artifact of reconstruction,
> since many proto-language irregularities tend to disappear
> and thus not be attested in all daughter languages.
That's true, of course, but I wasn't aware of it when I concocted that
particular piece of the coniverse a few years ago. The idea might have to be
modified or even scrapped should I start working on the Azainics again.

From the real-world perspective, whether Primitive Azainic was an auxlang or
not is simply undecided.

                                                       Andreas

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