Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?
| From: | Amanda Babcock <langs@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 28, 2003, 18:38 |
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On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 09:31:56AM +0100, Joe wrote:
> I think the most important thing about language is it's flexibility and
> ability to add new concepts. By that token, pheronomes are not languages,
> and Conlangs are.
And I think the most important thing about language is its grammar, the
property that an infinite number of utterances can by expressed using a
finite number of forms.
Notice that Andrew always skips over the issue of grammar in his responses?
I think he thinks a language is a collection of words. I notice the Ygyde
webpage doesn't even try to present a grammar.
I'm more of a grammar-first conlanger, lexicon later-if-ever...
Amanda
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