Re: Family project

In a message dated 7/31/01 9:22:13 AM, frterminus@YAHOO.COM writes:

<< 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 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.  Thus, it would be a little bit like a
relay (in that what one does can't really begin until the person before one
has finished, or at least has finished all the grammar, and whatnot), but
still more cooperative.  See what I mean?

<<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. Myself, I'd
prefer a new world, because my history sucks, and I
could make up whatever history I like on another
world.>>

    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?).

-David

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