Re: The disappeared conlang (and: Character sets)

En réponse à Boudewijn Rempt <boud@...>:

>
> As Lars and I found out, the listserv itself mangles Unicode (and
> utf-8, and I thought even Latin-1). Nobody's mailer is going to
> magically solve the bug in the listserv...
>
That I had forgotten, since I anyway cannot read Unicode and UTF-8 :) . Latin-1
texts always seem to come okay to me, so I guess it doesn't mangle them.

>
> So there I am -- Manxu is teaching Murxao classical Charyan, and I
> have to fill in the examples with XXX! This conlang appears to be
> no more -- it's a goner -- it's giving the glottal fricatives -- it
> won't go SOV if you put a thousand volts in it.
>
LOL!!!

I've had the opposite experience: a grammar written obviously by my hand (I can
recognize my own handwriting :)) ) though I couldn't remember (and still can't)
when I wrote it. So basically I had a language without a name, and a grammar
sketch without a father :))) . I baptised the language O, to refer to the void
of my memory about it :) .

> And now I have a difficult choice -- continue writing a pace of 5000
> words a week, or take an undefined period of time to re-construct
> it.
>
Be careful. What would be best for the novel after all: carrying on though
lacking some of the backing material, or take time to reconstruct the language
and have thus something to help consistency?

Sometimes, stopping writing may be the best way to quicken a novel's writing...

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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