Re: Family project

I've missed a few posts about this butif it's what I think it is it sounds
great; but must it be Romance? Why not Balto-Slavic, or non-IE entirely,
say Sino-Tibetan or Bantu?

Anyway, if someone will tell me where are the archives? I'd like to do
this too...


On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Padraic Brown wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Aidan Grey wrote:
>
> >  Okay, here's who wants to be involved, so far:
>
> I'd like to be in as well.
>
> >
> >  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...
> >
>
> A new yahoo group, for example, would alleviate the problems
> of traffic here on Conlang. Anyone not participating but
> still interested in the project could look in and see what's
> happening.
>
> The only other viable alternative would be a private distribution
> list.
>
> >  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'm neither one way nor the other - but an IE level deal
> would allow a lot more lattitude on our parts.
>
> >
> >  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 think an alternate world would be ideal.
>
> Padraic.
>
> >
> >  Any other ideas you guys have for details needed to
> >begin are welcome...
> >
> >  Aidan
>
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