Re: Changes of conlangs and their speakers (was Re: Skerre Play Online)

Quoting Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>:

> Hallo!
>
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:07:53 -0400, Paul Bennett wrote:
>
> > Thagojian has been rebuilt from the ground up several times.
> >
> > First, it was a consonant-rich, vowel-poor monstrosity of Techian
> > proportions, vaguely Nostratic, with morphological processes centered on
> > shuffling vowels (in a Semitic way) and masses of consonant mutations (in a
> > way similar to but more insane than Celtic). I *think* there were 288
> > consonantal phonemes, some bi- or tri-segmental, and 3 vowels, /i/, /A/
> > and /Q/. The orthography was perfectly regular, but horrific (including
> > s-overdot for /x/ as I recall).
>
> Yes, I remember that beast.  I think it wasn't a bad idea to revise it.
> It was indeed quite similar to Tech, and it tells a lot that Tech never
> really went anywhere.  Tech went through numerous build-and-tear cycles,
> with ever new variations on the theme of a huge consonant inventory, and
> barely anything beyond consonant phonology ever being developed.  Haven't
> heard of Danny Wier for two years, BTW.
One day he'll return with the perfected Tech. ;)

I'm generally loth to change things in my conlangs once they've been "set", so
change in them tends to be by the adding of new material changing the centre of
gravity.

Tairezazh (with relatives) could use being rebuilt - my linguistic naivite at
the time it got started means it's much more euroclonish than there's any call
for - but I'll never be able to bring myself to do it. Additions over the years
has moved it towards greater exoticism and quirkiness (it started out
nigh-totally regular), but it still essentially looks like a European language
whose phonotactics caught a mild case of Georgian. The superabundance of stops
and frics makes for a somewhat unusual sound, at least.

Meghean has seen more revision, chiefly in the direction of making its phonology
less fit for contemplation. More languages, I feel, should distinguish [N G~ G].

Tersnuvu *has* been torn down and rebuilt a couple of times - perhaps as a
result, it's never reached enough stability or completion for me to feel it
worth presenting here in any detail. Featuring heavy use of umlauts, it is
vaguely inspired by Sindarin, but nonetheless is very different from Meghean.

My other projects, such as Altaii, Yargish, Kalini Sapak, and Nanoling have
changed little from inception to effective abandonment.

                                               Andreas