En réponse à Keenan <makeenan@...>:
> Greetings one and all!
>
Welcome back!
> I have returned after a long respite which started in july. I realize
> that I don't post much when I'm here and everyone is asking themselves
> "Who the hell IS this guy!"
>
Nope! :)) I do remember you very well Duke! ;))) But we've had quite a few
people joining the list lately so there are indeed quite a few who don't know
you :) .
Don't be so hard on yourself! Ok is not that bad :) .
>
> My philosophy on reworking conlangs is to start over, keeping what I
> liked about the language and replacing what I didn't like. Thats why
> the
> Okpage sits there completely unchanged.
>
Well, that's mine too, except that when I do that (it's rare, only two of my
languages have followed this therapy ;))) ), I scrap the former version
entirely at the end (or at least I make it so that the outer world will never
find about it ;))) . It's easy since O and Maggel are both languages which had
no existence except on a few sheets of paper until I decided to rework them).
> Essentially
> I developed a system of asimilation for both vowels and consonants.
> Something that might have happened to Ok as it went through the ages.
> Glasca is what I call Ok's daughter language. Its much tidier and
> hasn't
> got all those consonant clusters.
>
Why don't you post more about it?
>
> It occured to me that Ok doesn't need tense and aspect! (duh). Trying
> to
> represent it, just globs up the word. Also by scratching around for
> just
> six different vowels, I can get rid of all those words with the
> consonant clusters and replace them with nice neat CV and VC words!
> YEEHAW!!
>
Hehe, funny you mention that, no less than yesterday somebody (sorry, I already
forgot who it was :((( ) was asking how could a languge work without marking
case on nouns or tense on verbs.
> So I did it and the result is Jugdjei. Go thither and marvel:
>
http://web.syr.edu/~makeenan/lesson_one.htm
>
> This is four lessons in the form of a phrasebook, plus notes that
> explain a lot of stuff that conlangers are interested in. There are
> also
> also 1700 word English to Jugdjei and Jugdjei to English dictionaries
> but these elsewhere and who cares anyways.
>
> Shto!
> Duke
>
Welome back again!
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
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