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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 You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.