Re: Kench & Para-British, was Re: Missing Listmembers...

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, taliesin the storyteller wrote:

> I do wonder about this fascination with romancelangs though... Why
> aren't "germanic language X (X not being English) develops like a
> romance-lang" more widespread, or norse-celtic or gothic-sanskrit or
> farsi-japanese, uhm...
Maybe romancelangs are better known to this sample of conlangers, or more
aesthetic?

I still hope to come up with a German-Japanese hybrid someday but it'll
have to wait until I learn more German, and learn Japanese, period.  (If
I had any money, which I don't, I'd almost pay some happy conlanger to do
it for me, if they'd give me permission to use snippets of it in a sf
novel I've worked on intermittently.)

The only language I'm personally fluent enough in to try messing with in
English.  :-/  My Korean, French and German just aren't that good.  Also,
for a con-Romancelang, which does sound fun, I'd have to learn Latin.
(Right now I'm trying to decide whether to take Intro to Phonetics &
Phonology
next semester--iffy because I haven't taken and due to math *can't* take
Linguistics 101, but I've read both its textbooks--or Intensive Latin.
Wonderful courses, tough decision...)

<looking around>  *Have* others done con-non-Romance-langs in their own
favored/native tongues?

YHL