Re: Conlanging with Dick and Jane

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 09:35:36 -0800, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:

>Hidy ho.
Ho ho ho!

>The solution occurred to me when I was sorting through
>some boxes of old books and came across a handful of
>children's early readers. Suppose one took a first
>year reader like "Fun With Dick and Jane" or
>"McGuffey's Eclectic Reader" and began on page one
>with "See Spot run." and "The cat sees the mouse." and
>translated the entire book, sentence by sentence, into
>the new conlang, discovering vocabulary and
>grammatical principles as they were needed.
<snip rest>

Good idea! :D
The point is just - where to get this first year reader stuff from? The very
most of us probably won't have anything the likes...
Perhaps you could write down the sentences and make them avaiable for
everyone? Then, if everybody started using them, we would have a much better
chance of comparing the conlangs with each other than just the Babel text
all the time.

--
Pascal A. Kramm, author of:
Choton: http://www.choton.org
Ichwara Prana: http://www.choton.org/ichwara/
Skälansk: http://www.choton.org/sk/
Advanced English: http://www.choton.org/ae/

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