Mikael Johansson skrev:
> > Hej! Me too! I'm taking linguistics there! Välkommen till listan!
> > I thought I was the only Stockholmer doing this. Well, there is
> heh... not any more :-)
Yay! :)
> oh yes! (although it was an introductory shock to see my accumulated
> mailbox; with ~400 mail since June go up to ~700 in a few days :-)
Hehe. It's totally worth it though. :)
> > Are you kidding me?! I was asked to do the conlanging for
> > Horisont, a sci-fi world building / RPG project. You can
> > check that project out at
http://go.to/horisont.> Interesting -- though the mean part of me nags me to critisize
> it for lack of imagination, multitude of stereotypes, lack of real-
> world connection (they _did_ seem to claim to be 'descendants' of
> today so to speak) etc. etc.
Yup. If I wasn't so busy with everything else I would really
do something about that.
> Quite so! The ppl at OA have almost in unison concluded that they
> don't understand too much of my linguist jargon, but that they still
> want everything as authentic as they can get it -- in other words,
> my only restraints on the languages I develop is that I should be
> able to justify them in one way or the other. Rather contrary to
> the Horiont-attitude :-)
Well, the leader of the Horisont-project is a really smart guy,
so when I explain linguistic stuff to him he mostly gets it.
But regarding the languages, he seems to want something which
is stereotypical to the culture, but not _too_ stereotypical.
For instance, the Fredanese are of African descendent though
live in Icelandic environments and with Icelandic traditions.
(Not _really_ Icelandic, but something to that effect). So
they wanted the language to look somewhat Icelandic...
I suppose I _could_ try and make Swahili go through some
_major_ sound changes, but still...
> Os-soldid tuesk.
What's that?
daniel
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