Re: Changes of conlangs and their speakers (was Re: Skerre Play Online)
From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
Date: | Friday, July 21, 2006, 18:01 |
The underlying "feel" of Kash has barely changed since Day One. Is that good
or bad? But the writing system quickly went from an abugida to an alphabet,
and we eliminated true diphthongs. Very early on, there was a prefix for the
perfect tenses, and I think even a passive. Gone. The vocab. has changed in
minor ways, since I kept misplacing early wordlists (recently found one-- it
had many more monosyllabic bases). For some reason, inanimate nouns
originally used what are now the animate endings. And at one point,
feminines were classed as inanimate; we changed that as a bow to PC.
Gwr was always going to be monosyllabic/tonal, but didn't get much developed
until quite recently; now it's in the doldrums due to summer heat, total
confusion, depression etc. etc.
Poor Prevli isn't even on the back burner anymore; back to the freezer in a
bunch of little packages known as files.