Re: How to start to make a language?

En réponse à Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>:

>
> Try to keep the notation as simple and effective as possible --
> sowing unnecessary apostrophes and accents everywhere doesn't do any
> good to a language.  Unless, of course, you want your language to
> be as weird as possible, which is something only seasoned
> conlangers like Christophe Grandsire can pull off without going
> crazy.  ;-)
>
Who said it's not making me crazy? ;))) (who said I was sane at the beginning
anyway ;))) )

Note that simplicity can lead to weirdity too: one of the reasons Maggel's
orthography is so strange and counter-intuitive is that I tried to map 90-odd
phonemes to 17 letters, without any diacritic of any sort. This doesn't go
without some problems ;))) .

Christophe.

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