Re: an accidental conlang

Staving David Peterson:
>Gary wrote:
>
><<To avoid biasing the language toward any one
>grammatical system the collaborators would have to
>come from diverse liguistic backgrounds. Otherwise
>the new language would end up being a relexification
>of English, or whatever the majority language was
>among the collaborators.>>
>
>http://www.langmaker.com/db/bbl_wasabi.htm
>
>In particular on my site, you might look at roman numeral IV at the
>very bottom of the page, where I essentially suggest the same idea as
>you did.  Though, if I may put my two cents in, 300 to 400 words is what
>should be shot for.
I'd be willing to play this game. I volunteer to do some word generation.
If people send me there favourite words from all the natlangs they know
anything about, I'll paste them into a random vocab generator and pass the
results on to whoever's compiles the list of 400 basic meanings.

Pete