Re: Family project

What a cool idea!

David, I wholly agree with your idea of waves. I think we'd also need a site
to host all the informations about the entire language family.

Luca

> 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
>