Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

Dan Jones wrote:
Consider: nuper autogyro Aquas Sulis volavi[1] "recently I flew
> by helicopter to Bath". The Romans obviously didn't have helicopters, so
the
> language must have changed in some way during the intervening centuries so
> that we can discuss helicopters now.
Right.  Not only a new word (apparently a neuter), but unless I'm mistaken,
a syntactic change as well-- volare  used transitively (though it grates a
little, IMO, personally I'd have used a Spanish type paraphrase ...hice
volar....-- not sure whether Sp. volar can be used transitively, maybe it
can?......so, feci ut autogyro volaret (is that the correct subjunctive?)

ObConlang:  In Kash, some animals "fly" (base, intransitive); pilots "cause
to fly" (derived caus. vb.) airplanes.  Maybe you could also say 'I flew
(intr.) by-means-of plane..."

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