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

From:Amber Adams <amber@...>
Date:Monday, August 6, 2001, 23:31
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 08:19:54AM -0700, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > What languages do you have in your world? :-) >
Well, my biggest project right now is Cenlatorre [sEnlAtOrr@], but I have a few other languages that I toss around, too, many of them not very fleshed out. Shotali [Sotali] is my attempt at an ergative language (though, in an odd twist, Ergativity seems to be the "norm" on my conworld), and Yil is my attempt at a monosyllabic, isolating language. Nyo'fa [njO?fA] is my attempt at an "alien" language. These languages are all being torn up and constantly revised (but what conlanger's languages aren't?) My problem is that I have a rather disgustingly detailed history of this conworld, including invasions, migrations, and the like, and the effect that it has on the languages. So, I have a very good idea of *what* the languages are, and how they're related, but I don't know yet what they sound like.

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Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>