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Re: Legratec

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 20:44
 --- Arthaey Angosii skrzypszy:

> Those YKYACI's are quite amusing. But I was appalled to discovered > I didn't know this term "LEGRATEC," so I Googled about and > discovered its coolness. :)
Indeed. One flaw of the system is that it doesn't work in absolute terms, though. If I understand it correctly, an abandoned conlang that it as complete as it will ever be would rate 5 on every scale, while a well-developed conlang still in evolution would rate less. Even if the former has only 50 words and the latter 5000. And then the script. Should I rate it 5 if I use a pre-existing script (like Latin or Cyrillic script)? Anyway, let's try: Wenedyk has almost 3000 words, but it is still growing. At present, however, I can translate most texts without having to create new words in every sentence. I'd rate it somewhere between 3 and 4. Texts: lots of translations, but very little original material. Conculture: quite a lot already, but still a lot to do. So: Wenedyk: L4, G4, T3, C3, P5, S5 = 23/30 Slezan: L2, G3, T1, C2, P4, S5 = 17/30 Hattic: L3, G4, T2, C2, P3, S3 = 17/30 Askaic: L3, G4, T2, C1, P2, S2 = 14/30 Vozgian: L1, G3, T1, C1, P3, S4 = 13/30 Megza: L1, G2, T0, C1, P1, S1 = 6/30 NOTES: - I must add that all this is very subjective, though. The fives for phonology and script in Wenedyk and Slezan were earned a bit too easily. - Three of these languages are part if Ill Bethisad, a highly elaborated but far from complete conculture. I've given a rate to the state of development of the particular region, not of the whole.
> > Joining the old >
(http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0102A&L=conlang&P=R14935)
> list of people's Legratec ratings, here are mine: > > - Sarenshille: L1 G1 T0 C0 P1 S1 (4/30) > - Asha'ille: L3 G3 T2 C4 P4 S4 (20/30) > - Gharchove: L1 G1 T0 C2 P1 S0 (5/30) > - Dehalaizen: L0 G0 T0 C1 P4 S0 (5/30) > > - Laoun: L0 G1 T0 C0 P1 S0 (2/30) > > > -- > AA >
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