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Re: Family project

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 1, 2001, 0:01
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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