Re: Boredom can make you do strange things.

Gary Shannon wrote:
> So I felt like doing some conlanging this afternoon, but I didn't feel like
> working on any of my existing projects. On the other hand, starting a new
> project from scratch just felt like too much work. So I hit on a wacky idea for
> taking the grammar of one language and using it with the vocabulary from a
> different language. For example, Italian vocabulary with Sanskrit grammar, or
> Greek vocabulary with Swahili grammar.
>
> ....
Doesn't sound too far off from some of the ideas I've played with.
Nihongurishi was something I came up with one day.  It's essentially
English, but with a phonology similar to Japanese.

	http://conlang.dana.nutter.net/index.php/Nihongurishi

I come up with scenarios like this all the time.  Let's apply feature X
from language A to language B.  Yes, it becomes much more interesting
when the two languages have little in common.