Re: Rosetta Stone idea

In a message dated 6/1/01 2:31:19 PM, valoczy@VCN.BC.CA writes:

<< > If a couple of people wanted to get together and to the Rosetta Stone
> activity, I'd be willing to participate in that, too.  I even have a
> suitable passage full of proper names to use as the starting place.
>
> This got me thinking of another project: Construct The Proto-Lang.  I have
> a cluster of three languages all descended from a common source, and I've
> always wondered if the proto-language I have designed is actually
> reconstructible from the daughter languages.  So if anyone else has a
> similar cluster of related languages, I'd love to do a swap and each see
> if we could analyze each other's languages.  They wouldn't need to be
> fully developed (mine aren't), as I think we'd probably just do word-lists
> and maybe some morphology and see what the other person comes up with.
>
> Any takers? >>
    After reading this, I caught the proto-lang bug, too, and I created an
exercize where, given six derived languages, one has to construct the proto
langauge.  Rather than having these six already invented and no Proto, I have
a language which I derived them from, so it's the proto.  I don't know how
well it was done, or if it's actually possible to construct the proto from
the information I gave...  I'm game, though, if you are.  :)

-David