Re: Conlang Guilt

Irina Rempt <ira@...> wrote:8
>
> On Sat, 15 May 1999, Joe Mondello wrote:
>
> > Have any of you
> > felt this need to intentionally steer away from the convention in natlangs
> > familiar to you?
>
> Oh yes. I've even been tempted to throw all the noun-declining and
> verb-conjugating stuff overboard, in my more pessimistic moods ("see?
> it's all crap, nothing original"). I'm glad I didn't give in, though.
>
I've given in, in the beginnings of some of my langs,
but then my pragmatic sense has taken over and I've
redone things... My pragmatic sense forces me to throw
away things that I can't master after two or three
repetitions. :)


--Pablo Flores