Re: proposed conlang database & my classification

Herman:
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:40:05 -0800, Garrett Jones <alkaline@...>
> wrote:
> >So, esperanto would be a blend, and Ido would be an 'unaltered'. Fictional
> >languages like Klingon and Quenya would be a priori, random generation.
>
> "Random" implies generating vocabulary or assigning meanings automatically,
> by computer or analogous methods like rolling dice or shuffling decks of
> cards. My own language Tilya is an example of this approach, as is Mark
> Line's Classical Yiklamu. I think the word you're looking for is
> "arbitrary".
Though a priori needn't entail arbitrary. Lots of creators of a priori
vocab require as little arbitriness as possible, either in terms of
phonosemantic motivatedness, or in terms of Ro-like systematicity.

--And.

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