Re: THEORY: Conlanging as reverse Sapir-Whorf?

nicole perrin wrote:
>
> This makes me curious, do people on the list (who work on more than one
> conlang) find that most of their conlangs are similar to each other?  I
> don't mean in obvious ways, but maybe you really like /p/ and all of you
> languages have it (or you really dislike it and none of them have it),
> or maybe they all have similar word orders, or are all
> isolating/agglutinating/analytic/polysynthetic etc?  <snip>
I've been concerned about this, and so I make a conscious effort at
differentiating my conlangs. Three of my four exist in the same world,
but I've declared that they are from different language families, and so
I work at making them distinct. No, you'll only find material on one of
them at my web page; that's all I've gotten webified so far. The fourth
language is for a completely different world, an alternate history south
Pacific island culture. I'm not particularily borrowing yet from RL
Pacific languages (too lazy to do the research), but for my own sake am
again making it distinctly different from the other three.

Laurie
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