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Re: Too far in to make major changes?

From:Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...>
Date:Sunday, March 19, 2000, 18:51
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Sylvia Sotomayor wrote:

> At 00:50 03/19/2000 -0500, you wrote: > >ea-luna is just about 4 years old now. It's a pretty large > >language (particularly by my standards). It continues to grow and > >change, mostly becoming more complex. Is this any time to go > >changing the phonology? > >[snip] > >I just don't know if I want to get into a major revision at this > >stage, especially while it is already undergoing some shifting > >and refining of the grammar. > > > >Any opinions? Should I just start YANC? (Yet Another New Conlang) > > This happens to me, too, every so often. I'm perfectly satisfied with what > my language looks and sounds like, but then there's this other feature that > is really cool and wonderful, and well... > > So, I add dialects, sister languages, daughter languages, even mother and > aunt and second-cousin twice removed languages. They don't always get > completely fleshed out, but I know they are there, and sometimes it is fun > to have one borrow words from the others. >
What I did when I really, really wanted to put tones into Denden, was to move the clock a century or ten and describe the language that grew out of Denden, Late Colloquial Denden. Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org