Re: CHAT: YAC: or more exactly: yet another conlang sketch

Robert Hailman wrote:

> > This has been answered by some others. I think the Rinyi
> > were there first and then the Nakiltipkas came and now
> > they live in peaceful harmony. Nakiltipkas in the east
> > and north, and Rinyi in the south and west.
> Ah. Are there any natural features on the island to enforce this
> division, or did it come to be for more historical reasons? Inquiring
> minds want to know. :-)
I don't know really. I'll have to think more about this. Then I'll
post it on Conculture. If I dare. I'll probably get so many questions
regarding the culture that I won't have time to do anything else.

> Well, you *can* take me seriously, but from my experience whenever I
> take myself and my ideas seriously trouble ensues.
I have the problem that I often talk before I think. So I often
come up with theories that I haven't really thought through. The
funny thing is that they almost always are proven wrong. This is
actually good. If I come up with a theory, I know that it is the
exact opposite theory that is the correct one. ;-)

> Ooh, another Linguistics major. Who'da' thought there'd be so many on a
> list about conlangs? Surely not I. ;-)
Well, once you start taking linguistics, it's almost impossible to
stop.

> I actually know amazing little about active languages, all my conlangs
> thus far have been nom/acc.
>
> I know I'd read your thesis, or at least try to, if you put it on the
> 'net.
I did, as you saw. Hope you enjoyed at least that part. We'll see
when the rest gets webified. Not too soon if I don't go no-mail,
which I won't.

daniel

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