Re: Zhyler & Kele Babel Texts

How do you make a creole or a pidgin. Do you apply sound changes and 'corrupt' the
words or do you use some other method.

I'll check out your languages today.

Nikhil
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David J. Peterson 
  To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 11:16 AM
  Subject: Zhyler & Kele Babel Texts


 Both are up on langmaker.com now. Check them out, if you're not busy. The
second is my attempt at a creole. It's a neat idea, which may be the same as
what went down here a few months ago (?). I took a set list of words and then
made a creole from those words and those words alone. The words contained no
grammar, of course, and I picked them based on what most pidgins have words for
(i.e., basic words). If the project I'm thinking of that happened way back when
was different, it might be a neat idea for a group to come together and take a
common set of "basic" words (there's bound to be disagreement about what's
basic and what isn't--I have arguments with myself about this), and then
everyone invents a creole from it, and then comparing/contrasting happens. It's
*kind of* like the Ardalang project (remember *that*?), but focusing on
creoles. Anyway, that's it. Though I would like to mention again that I now own
the Codex Seraphinianvs. I said it before, but I don't think anyone read it. I
was pretty excited about it.

  -Dave