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Re: proposed conlang database & my classification

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Monday, March 25, 2002, 10:02
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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