Re: The new Rinya thread
From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...> |
Date: | Thursday, October 12, 2000, 11:44 |
* Daniel Andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...> [001011 21:00]:
> Tal skrev:
>
> > *sniff* But... you haven't completely stopped working on
> > Rinya have you? Start a new thread to answer it 'kay?
>
> Okej, here's the new thread.
>
> No, I haven't stopped working on Rinya. It's just that I really
> should do other things, and Rinya has been my language project
> for so long that when I want to make up something new in it, I
> think about it for to long. I wouldn't want to make Rinya into
> something I don't like. Stupid thought, I know.
Heh, been there... just hang on to it.
> As for now, I'm thinking of stealing large portions of the
> Central and Eastern Pomo active system. Or at least that's
> where I'd mostly get the ideas from.
Pomo? Why do I associate that with Italian? How is that system
then?
> Another thing is that I've reworked the phonology (which is
> in a constant state of flux). This makes it hard to come up
> with examples since I have to invent new words everytime, or at
> least transform the old ones into the new phonology.
If you have so few words as you claim, I'm sure you can list all
of them :) As for phonology; is it the actual sound-rules or the
orthography that is the problem? I've changed the orthography,
oh, at least four or five times since 1997, but the underlying
phonology haven't changed that much.
t.