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Re: Article about "new" Conlang

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 5, 2003, 22:22
Fredrik Ekman wrote:
> I had honestly forgotten how much fun this mailing list is. > > I had also forgotten exactly why I always sign off a few weeks after I > have (re-)joined. But I was soon reminded when e-mail started pouring in. > Day and night, without end. > > Anyway, the primary reason that I joined this time is that I have written > a short article about a fictional conlang called The Ancient Tongue of the > Wise. The language in question (which may not even be a real conlang, > although it looks like one) originated with the computer game The Citadel > (third in the Lords of Midnights series) by Mike Singleton. There are only > some fragments of it that I have been able to find, but I tried to analyze > them as best I could. > > The article is primarily written for fans of the computer games, but > before I present it to them, I would like to have some input from people > who are better at this than I am. So anyone who happens to be interested > and who has a little time to spare can currently take a look at it here: > > http://www.lysator.liu.se/~ekman/language.html > > This is only a temporary location, so please do NOT link to this page. > > Any and all feedback is appreciated.
Looks nice. I don't know if it's a safe assumption that there is a plural inflection for nouns just because one of the sentences is translated with a plural, though...Japanese has no plural marking for nouns, but English translations of Japanese texts contain plurals. But you're probably right, since the author was probably mostly familiar with European languages.

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Fredrik Ekman <ekman@...>
Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>