Tom Wier <artabanos@...> wrote:
> Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> > I've heard of some Germanic conlangs. Tom Wier has _Degaspregos_, a
> > conlang based on PIE.
> =
> Yeah, but all the Germanic languages are based off of the *modern* lang=
uages
--
> I'm not at all sure if they researched what Protogermanic looked like t=
o be
able to
> implement that in their language.
I understand that the young Tolkien was doing exactly that when he happen=
ed
upon his first Finnish grammar book, fell in love, and forgot everything =
else.
> And yes, there is my language, but that's not really a hypothetical IE
language
> offshoot (like, as if the Finns had been totally overwhelmed, and all =
we
had
> left was a language based on PIE with lots of Finnish substratal materi=
al
and
> such). Degaspregos is more of, as I say on my site, a "quasi-IAL", in =
that
it
> uses PIE vocab, and a few grammatical features, regularizes them, and a=
dds
> a few more, to make an auxiliary language, much like Esperanto. But i=
t has
> no conculture to it as yet (although the idea did come to me only today=
that
> I might like to make one -- which would effectively make it a
> pseudoquasi-IAL. :) ) And, more importantly, I don't really want to
proselytize
> the language like the Esperantists (hence the "quasi-").
I checked out the page. The case system is quite overwhelming! That's
supposed to be a compliment, I think. :)
Ed
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