Re: word choice process (was: Announcement Follow-up)

On Sunday, August 5, 2001, at 06:04 PM, Amber Adams wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 03:16:59PM -0400, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>> Yes--actually, Czevraqis is ongoingly used in a fantasy novel I've
>> been working on, but the world *did* start out as a private
>> roleplaying world between me and my sister.  (I mutated it drastically.)
>
> Cool, someone else who has derived their languages from a fantasy world
> they created! :)  I did that too... but most conlangers I've talked to
> have these IALs, or these distant-future Earth althists, or something
> like that.
>
I'm scared to touch *any* distant-future-Earth project...I don't feel I
know enough about world history from the 16th century onward to
extrapolate anything remotely plausible.  <rueful look>

What languages do you have in your world?  :-)

> It's kind of neat to have a whole planet with all of its language families
> to play with, too, because then they can borrow from each other, evolve
> into other languages, and crazy stuff like that.
<nod>  Yes--in practice, I only have the one language so far (mainly
because the novel is set in two nations that share dialects of the
language) worked out in anything resembling detail.  I may cheat on Mijera
and strip off Japanese grammar.  :-p

YHL

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