Re: ConLang Journal

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Paul Edson
| Subject: ConLang Journal
|
| Something I've been considering as a potential web-space use
| is a sort of linguistic petting zoo: interesting features of
| various nat- and con-langs gathered together by topics.
| "Complicated Consonant Clusters", "Noun Class Systems",
| "Languages with more than a dozen Cases..." that sort of
| thing. That might also be an interesting omnibus "column"
| for such a journal.
| Paul Edson
|

        I have thought of something similar. There is a very cool web site:

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

        As the title suggests, it basically describes, with static and
animated images, how hundreds of products work, from ball-point-pens to DVD.

        I think a linguistic version of this would be lots of fun. It could
define terms, give information on language families and specific languages,
have animated gifs displaying how features of languages work (for example,
an expanding tree of the tenses/person/number in a Latin verb conjugation,
or a detailed evolution of different writing systems).
        I've actually thought this could be an interesting, if intensive,
master's project.