Re: Family project

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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