Re: How big

Christopher:

How big is too big to change? I don't think there is such a thing. After
all, there are natural languages that have undergone deliberate reforms.
There was a time when I thought my pet project Rhean was approaching 4000
words (and this while spending bugger-all time on it!). However, after
condensing my three lexica into one master lexicon, I discovered it is
closer to 2500 words. But still in constructed language terms that's pretty
big.
That didn't stop me from ripping the whole thing apart numerous times. I
introduced a whole second class of verbs (from all verbs ending in -ak, to a
system with -ak and -ek verbs), changed noun declensions a half dozen times,
diddled with the word order, violated its phonetic rules, and scrapped an
alphabet. And I'm planning more changes on the way cause I've run into a bit
of a block with conditional verbs.
You want to change it, do it! It gets more difficult as the language grows,
but it's YOUR project and thus it will NEVER reach a point where you can't
do whatever you want to it.

NS

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