Re: Family project

David Peterson wrote:
>    I vote for closer to IE, as well.  What I was thinking is that, based
on
>one's level of ability (I'd be in the lower tier, for instance), there
could
>be different levels of creation.  For instance, one person could create the
>Proto language (as detailed as it needs to be).  Next (using IE as the
>metaphor here), the next wave of creators (which could include the Proto
>language creator, also) would create, for example, the "Slavic", "Baltic",
>"Celtic", "Germanic", "Latin", "Greek", "Iranian" and "Sanskrit" like
>languages.  Then the next wave of creators (the lowest tier) could go from
>there and make the "Spanish", "French", "Russian", "Persian", "Lithuanian",
>"Irish", "Hindi", "English", etc.  >
Just as a potential observer, this would be my feeling too.
>
>    I'm very much in favor of Earth, but not this Earth.  I don't want to
>have to mess around with animals that we create, different types of land
>masses, plants, etc.  I want there to be lions, tigers, bears, oaks,
lilies,
>the whole bit.  Doing it otherwise (in my opinion) would be far too
>difficult.  All the same, though, creating a whole family that's supposedly
a
>real family in our present Earth would be far too taxing (Atlantis?).
Again,  as one who supposedly is developing languages/cultures on an alien
planet, I have to say it introduces many difficulties.  By all means, lions,
tigers, lilies etc etc.rather than "a lion-like animal", a "lily-like
flower".
ObConlang:  just today, preparatory to creating a recipe, I had to come up
with the Kash equivalent (more or less) of beef.  Imagine my surprise, when
the animal and its meat turned out to be called _kawu_, pronounced [kaU].

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