Re: Introducing Paul Burgess and his radioactive imagination!
From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, March 11, 2003, 12:24 |
En réponse à Paul Burgess <paul@...>:
>
> I borrowed word roots, often with random phonetic
> mutations, from whatever came to hand-- usual from Indo-
> European languages, sometimes from other languages such
> as Hebrew or whatever. Some of the word roots in
> Hermetic I simply coined out of thin air. But the
> Hermetic language as a whole is not "related" to any
> natural language-- the grammar, I cobbled together one
> detail at a time, again from whatever bright ideas or
> sources came to hand.
>
There again, the similarity with Maggel is impressive! Maggel too is a kind
of "mosaic" language whose design principles you just stated!! If anything, my
designing Maggel has been more consciously based than your designing
Hermetic :) .
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang.