Re: Lost in Space....err, Time

Jim Hopkins v=EDlel=FB:
>It may be, Steg, that your language has a life of its own and is trying =
to
>tell you something.  Perhaps there are socio-cultural reasons that this
>admixture of forms is taking place.....?  Why not go with it and see =
where it
>leads?

As I've shared often in the past, this is something that I feel very =
strongly regarding Aluric.  There are several constructions, a lot of =
vocabulary, and even some of the phonology that I periodically look at =
and say "wouldn't it be better if..." but no matter what I come up with, =
if it isn't Aluric, it isn't Aluric, no matter how cool it seems.  I =
have learned, after a few blind alleys like that, to let the language be =
itself and to "discover" it rather than to "create" it.

Tony Harris
Community College of Vermont
tony.harris@ccvtest.ccv.vsc.edu