Re: The future of Sturnan

 --- Christopher B Wright wrote:

> I'm glad I won't live forever, because I wouldn't like it if I completed
> Sturnan's family.
No worries mate. Even one language isolate would never be complete, let
alone a whole family. Besides, you can always create new offshoot langs.

Let me give you one piece of advise: don't work on two (or more) interrelated
languages at the same time. I've been doing that for a while (with three
languages), and the result was: one language became nice indeed, while the
other two became cheap, superficial derivates. With open eyes I fell into
the trap of using always the same method and the same changes to recreate
a word in its sister languages.

I like my main language, Hattic, too much to make it a member of such a
lousy family of cheap imitations. That's why I put the others away, work
exclusively on Hattic for a while, and later (eventually) come back to the
others, one by one. In the future I hope to create new Askaic words on the
basis of Askaic itself, instead of just rebuilding another language to create
a new one.

Looking for Sturnan texts, I found nothing but a dead link. Can we expect a
change in this respect?

And one more question. Sturnan is an indepent Indo-European offshoot, right?
With one sister language, Hansu, if I understand you well. Is there some
sort of conculture involved? And if not, IF it would have been a NatLang,
where would it have been spoken? Is it a kentum or a satem language? That kind
of things. Please, elaborate!

Yours,
Jan

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wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that
happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great
comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." --- J.
Michael Straczynski

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