Re: an RPG conlang: Kaendoran (not mine!)

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Roger Mills wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> >http://wol.s5.com/wol_language_pronunciation.html
> >
> >Opinions, anyone?  Just curious to see "real" conlangers' impressions.
> >Someone sent my co-GM and me this a link to this (apparently)
> >up-and-coming RPG, and since there was a language section, it was one of
> >the first things I hit....>
> >I'm not sure about the phonology, but their transliteration looked sort
> >of like a hash designed to make the thing more "exotic," rather than very
> >useful or consistent.  <shrug>
>
> It seems consistent, within their parameters, but unnecessarily complex to
> my view, and a little ad-hoc-- e.g. unmotivated vowel pronunciations after
> certain letters.....?  On the whole, its look struck me as quite Old
> Englishy, or Tolkienish perhaps.  The lexicon suggests it's meant to do
> word-for-word translations from Engl.   The lexicon also suggested that
> someone was less than inventive-- several words look like rearrangements of
> the English letters.
I bet that's where they started.  I glanced very briefly at the rest of
their page and it had a bunch of "Old Englishy" spelling for things like
magic, etc.

>  OTOH, they actually *bothered* with
> >something resembling a world-language, so what can I say?>
> My sentiment exactly ;-)
Yup.  Thanks--it's good to get impressions from those more knowledgable.

YHL