Re: Four things: Was: Comparison of philosophical languages

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:23:46AM -0500, Sally Caves wrote:
[snip]
> I don't dismiss any language project, And.  I have preferences, though, as
> do you.  I don't yet particularly LIKE the language in question that has
> been the subject of so much debate and intemperate outburst, lately, or its
> (to me) awkward and limited form of building words--anymore than I expect
> everyone to like MY invented language.  At times, *I* don't like it so much,
> and wish I had invented, say, Ebisedian. :)
You flatter me. ;-)

Would you like to adopt Ebisedian? :-) Lately, I've been getting this
awful feeling that I need to do a *major* overhaul on it, keeping nothing
but a handful of existing words and the case system, and basically
rebuilding another language, with a different name even. Or at the very
least, I'll keep most of the existing grammar but completely replace the
phonology and lexical feel.

> But it's so much a part of me that I can no more divorce it than if it
> were my own child growing up.  To me it is beautiful and rare.  CONLANG,
> however, has a humbling element to it, as I found out five years ago
> when I joined, and saw all the other rare things that were being done
> here.
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Yep... believe it or not, the original version of Ebisedian was more or
less constructed on similar premises to Ygyde. Until I starting learning
*real* linguistics from the list, and became acutely aware of my own
myopic preconceptions. :-)


T

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