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P.S.: Yivrindil

From:David Peterson <digitalscream@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 13, 2002, 13:01
    I looked at your webpage.  Very thorough.  One question comes to mind:
Was it meant to be an auxlang?  Aside from that, what I looked for and did
not find (and this is probably the hardest thing to do online, considering
webpage space, and all) is a list of words.  The words I did see here and
there seemed transparent glosses of English words.  This seems to be a common
theme in languages I've seen.  Every so often there will be a word in a
language here and there that will have been put together via some sort of
metaphorical structure, but it, to, is oftentimes transparent.  This is the
way my second-fourth or fifth languages were (in my first I tried to do
semantic isolation, so that every possible idea had its own individual root).
 It wasn't until I started thinking about what should have its own root and
what shouldn't, and what words are commonly shared, which aren't, and the
idea of non-productive derivational morphology that I started trying to
create languages which had their own semantics.  To me, this is a good thing
to shoot for.  Yivrindil, from what I've seen, didn't even try.  Have you
done anything like this?

-David

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