Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

From: "Amanda Babcock" <langs@...>
> 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...
I find that my conlanging tends to focus on creating sets of sound-change rules.
The lexica thus tend to be rather unstable :p  Grammar (syntax, anyway) tends to
come more by intuition than by conscious design... just yesterday, for example,
I was rereading the Babel text I posted recently and found that in two places
where 'because' was translated as <por cést> 'for this' the language didn't want
'cést' to stand alone, so I had to recast it as <por céste cuse> 'for this
thing'.

Things like that.

    *Muke!
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