Re: CHAT: Which world? Which culture?

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 21:00:43 -0500, James Worlton <jworlton@...> wrote:

Thank you all for the replies so far! :-)))

>> Another solution to the problem could be to make a culturally neutral
>> language - which sounds so extremely impossible that my writing fingers
>> keep asking my brain if it really would like to even mention such a
>> strange idea. *g*
>
>I'm with Padraic on this one. Yuck!
It is reassuring that the anti-IAL reflex still works on this list...
*hehe*

I have a problem similar to the one Amanda mentioned. The speakers
of my conlang become clearer and clearer. But where they live and
how... hm, no idea yet. But what will fill the lexicon if I do not
know what would be relevant to be talked about? This, in turn, will
depend on cultural issues... hm.

I have a pretty satisfying grammar now. Next, I need words for my
lexicon. But such a quest depends on a sufficiently clear image
(opposed to my currently quite fuzzy one) of the underlying culture.
Yes, still plenty for me to create. :-)))

Have a good time with your (more or less) secret vice,
:-)))
Harald

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