Re: Collaboration

Am 07/16 05:04  Vasiliy Chernov yscrifef:

> I thought of an *open* project of this type. For example, an
> alternative timeline (several millennia long) with many protolanguages
> contributed by different people in the form of very sketchy
> descriptions (note that a proto-lang doesn't need to be described in
> much detail), which are then elaborated by joint efforts.
>
> The participants can announce new daughter languages (not
> necessarily derived from their own proto-langs) which borrow words from
> each other, become classical 'Old Tongues' for still younger cultures,
> form linguistic areas, illustrate various typological possibilities
> of language evolution, etc.
>
> Each announced conlang is then elaborated collectively. Each
> participant (not necessarily authors of separate conlangs) can freely
> propose details (roots, words, phrases, rules, etc.) not specified in
> the original sketch, and they are accepted if no objections have been
> put forward concerning their compatibility with the other details and
> the 'spirit' of the language in question.
>
> What will you say, folks?
>
A chance to create new languages in a new world?  That sounds like fun.
Creating a language that is a sythesis of two older languages is an idea
that I've wondered about doing.  It's been a while since I tried to
create a completely original language.

- andrew.
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Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@earthlight.co.nz