Re: Conlanging with Dick and Jane

--- "Pascal A. Kramm" <pkramm@...> wrote:

<snip>
> 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?
I've actually purchased a couple of antique children's
readers from the early 1900's on eBay and Amazon.  I'm
waiting for them to arrive. They are all illustrated
and out of copyright so I'm hoping to be able to put
the illustrations and sentence on a web page in the
style of the original book.

<snip>
> 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.
>
I would be happy to put down these sentences.  There
will probably be much repetition as these are designed
to drill beginning readers, but I can choose
representative sentences from each chapter and level
and perhaps build a collection of a handful of typical
first year sentences, a handful of second year ones,
and so on.

--gary

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