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Re: Family project

From:Amber Adams <amber@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 31, 2001, 20:08
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:21:57AM -0700, Aidan Grey wrote:
> Okay, here's who wants to be involved, so far: > > Elliott Lash > Dan Seriff > Amber Adams > Andrew Smith > Damiel Andreasson > Andrew Chaney (I think) > David Stokes > > There are a couple questions to ask right of the > bat: do we want a separate list to discuss this stuff > on? Or should be just introduce a new header, like NGL > used to? And what to call the project? I don't like > Family project, but I suppose we'll have to wait to > name the language family...
My vote would be for a separate list, but I'm actually mostly indifferent.
> On the the language topic, what level of family are > people interested in? Indo-European level, or Romance > level (I believe Andrew Smith prefers the latter)? I'm > willing to go either way.
I'd like to see something somewhere in between those two levels, maybe a bit closer to IE than Romance, but close enough that there is some hope of recognition (though this is more up to the individuals involved, I guess) and some chance of 'scholarly' borrowings.
> And is this going to be an Earth language, or an > alternate world? This is going to have a huge effect > on historical development, for example.
I guess I'd rather see a new world, or an "Alternate Earth," rather than trying to fit this in as an Earth language. It leaves more options open, I think.

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