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Re: A more systematic approach to language mutation

From:James Worlton <jworlton@...>
Date:Friday, January 23, 2004, 14:16
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I'm trying to get a project off the ground to gradually start mutating English, a little bit at a time, until it becomes something entirely different; different grammar and different vocabulary. I wondered about how to introduce radical changes in the vocabulary yet make it easy for people to understand and incorporate the new vocabulary. What I came up with was to introduce new suffixes and prefixes with which new words can be coined. [snip cool mutations] --gary ============= Yay! I'm glad your project hasn't died. I really enjoyed the last version you had on your site for the E.R. Burroughs story. I think that by adding affixes to existing English words which maintain their spelling for the most part will aid in learning the more drastic grammatical changes that you want to do. You have [at least one] fan[s]! James W.