Re: How do diacronic conlangers work?

Joseph Fatula skrev:
> Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
>> - I have been thinking lately about how 'historical
>>   conlangers' go about their work, and am thinking of
>>   eventually turning the thoughts into some kind of essay. I
>>   would appreciate what others who are into that line of
>>   conlanging think of what I've come up with so far
>>
>>   - It is notably often *not* the protolanguage (the highest
>>     node in the linguistic family tree) which was there
>>     first in real time, but some later form which gets
>>     labeled "classical" or some variety thereof.
>>
>
>
> Not all diachronic conlangers do it this way.  I for one always start
> with the ancestral language and work forwards.
It is good to learn that there are other ways, but this raises
two questions for me:

- Is this way of working a result of any conscious decision, or
   is it what comes spontaneously to you?

- Have you ever changed, or been tempted to change, a higher
node
   language to get or avoid some feature(s) in a lower node
language?

/BP

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