Re: Conlanging with Dick and Jane

--- caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
wrote:

> Gary Shannon <fiziwig@Y...> wrote:
>
>>
> I have toyed with the idea of presenting my conlang
> Senyecan in the
> style of a Berlitz language book.  I read them all
> when I was a kid.
<snip>

Neat idea. I remember the Belitz German from when I
was taking German in high school.

Expanding on my primer idea if I can find one that's
out of copyright and has lots of colorfull pictures
(or even nifty old black-and-white illustrations) it
would be neat to scan the pictures onto a web page and
recreate the whole "See Spot run." experience in the
conlang, pictures and all.

It also occurred to me that just as children make
common mistakes when they are learning a language
(Like over-generalizing in "I runned all the way
home.") so might I "make mistakes" in some of the
early reader translations that would have to be
corrected later when the conlang became more
sophisticated.  Just a thought.

--gary