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Re: THEORY: Conlanging as reverse Sapir-Whorf?

From:Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@...>
Date:Saturday, November 27, 1999, 3:00
nicole perrin <nicole.eap@...> comunu:

> 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?
It was out of fear of this that I asked people to profile only one language in the typology survey (which, BTW, I do have enough responses to to update, and will do at some point). In my own languages, I have always preferred simple, even minimal, phonologies, and usually allow closed syllables and consonant clusters. I tend to prefer SVO, prepositions, initial genitives, modifiers before nouns. But, as I think of my major languages -- Dublex, Sen:esepera, Roxhai, Fith, Montinoro (not on the net), Illish -- not one uses the same method of vocabulary generation, not one uses the same "lexical space"; three are artistic IALs (an oxymoron to some), and the other three have concultures. Best regards, Jeffrey Henning http://www.LangMaker.com/ - Invent Your Own Language subscribe-dublexgame@onelist.com - Win $100 in the DublexGame contest! "If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed.... Oh, wait, he does!"