Re: Part 2 Why my con langs SUCK!!!

Quoting David Peterson <ThatBlueCat@...>:

> Oops: I accidentally hit the "send" button.   Bad me.
>
> Anyway, responding to this sentence:
>
> <<Isn't it better that all verbs are
> regular and congugate in the same way?  Well, maybe
> not.  *But if not, why not?*>>
>
> The reason behind the "why not" is to make a language more naturalistic.
> Natural languages are irregular, so if you want your created language to be
> natural-looking, you have to model believable irregularity--and this goes for
> the
> orthography as well as the grammar (but NEVER the romanization--that just
> gives us a headache!).
If a conlang is, or is supposed to be, written natively in an irregular
orthography, I'd expect the romanization to reflect the native spelling in all
its irregular glory. This is the approach I'm taking with my conlangs.

                                                             Andreas

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