Re: I'M BACK!!! :)
From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
Date: | Thursday, August 28, 2003, 18:39 |
En réponse à Peter Bleackley :
>>Conlangly speaking, I must confess I did next to nothing during those
>>holidays :)) . I've just begun a new description of Maggel. The language
>>itself is not changing, I just reread my notes and found so many
>>contradictions and loopholes that I had to begin them again. It allowed me
>
>I thought that Maggel was meant to be full of contradictions and loopholes?
The language yes, but I cannot afford the description of it to be that way
too, otherwise I'll get lost in my own language :))) . What I mean is to
correct things like the mention I made in my notes that Maggel had a
separate inclusive/exclusive distinction in pronouns, when I actually
decided to merge it in non-obvious ways with the
general/proximal/superdistal/subdistal distinction (which basically merges
demonstrative and personal pronouns already :))) ). As I said, the language
stays the same. But I cannot afford my notes to be as evil as the language
they describe, so I have to clean them a bit :)) . Otherwise, I just
wouldn't be able to carry on developing it :(( .
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
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