Re: beginner

Your English isn't so bad. ;) *sigh* Everyone puts us English to shame
by speaking our language so well. I wish more of us were good at
speaking foreign languages, but so many people just don't care. And the
ones who do are all emigrating to the costa del sol lol.

>Hello everyone! This is my first email on this list.
>I'm from Brazil, so you must excuse my bad english.
>
><Is a kind of language easier to create in flexionnal,
>agglutinative, and isolating? >
>
>I think all those types of language have its own
>problems. But in my case, I invented a agglutinative
>language. I wasn't thinking wich one was the easiest.
>I wanted to create something very different from the
>portuguese, a flexional language. I don't really
>prefer agglutinative ones, I just wanted a very
>strange system. So, how I'm not used to agglutinative
>languages...
>
>
 I'd say isolating or agglutinating are the easier choices. :) About the
hardest to do is a polysynthetic style language: you have tons of
affixes, which isn't so difficult, but the hard point is that in
examples from every polysynthetic language I've seen they tend to merge
with each other a lot of the time. And when you have so many bits
involved it just seems difficult to me to design it so it all works
well. This problem doesn't crop up in agglutinating languages since
after all they don't merge things together that much.
 Have you ever studied any native South American languages at all? If
you can find any information about them they might be a good source of
ideas.

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