Re: CHAT: JRRT

<<That question risks generating a zillion "me too" responses (though
it is absolutely true that when one reads biographical info about
JRRT one does generate loads of me-too responses -- his nocturnal
lucubration for example). So perhaps instead we should assume that
the conlanger default is intelligent + dilatory + unmethodical
& instead enquire whether anybody isn't dilatory + unmethodical.
Herman Miller strikes me as unusually methodical & undilatory,
for instance. Certainly not dilatory, at any rate. (NB Dilatory
!= propensity to inflate!)>>

mMM. I'd say that fits me. Most of my Langs are naturalistic ones for fiction, so
being unmethodical, or at least willing to bend methodology, is a mixed curse.
"Did I plan that irregularity, or did it just arrise...?"

Dilatory... no, actually. Not as a default, anyway-- depends on the people I'm creating
the language for, I guess.
---
Eddie

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