Re: Really Intersistemal (was: INTERSYSTEMAL CONLANG)
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 3, 2002, 5:50 |
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On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 01:21 , Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
> --- Wesley Parish wrote:
>
>> Simple solution - base the very next IAL on Sumerian with heavy Chinese
>> (tonal), Basque, Tamil and Ancient Egyptian conjugation and declination
>> influences. But skew the pronunciation towards Shona, for very obvious
>> reasons - no one else has done so yet, so it's free, and add in a large
>> number of (Anatolian) Hattic, Urartian and Elamitic roots.
>
> Then I will probably throw in some of my own Hattic as well! :)
Just to confuse everybody, eh? :-)
[snip]
> Seriously, if (if, if) I had been an auxlanger, I would not think it a
> bad idea
> to create an IAL based on reconstructed proto-languages.
I think that's sort of what Joseph Scarisbrick was trying to with his
Lips-Kith.
> Maybe I'll give it a try once... could be fun!
Why not?
> Oops, have I crossed the line already?
Not at all. You'd do that only if you then tried to push your conlang as
an IAL and not just as an interesting conlang.
Ray.