Re: And now... a new conlang!

ira@rempt.xs4all.nl writes:
>I think pointedly trying to avoid doing something as it's done in
>another language is a mistake. I tried that, after I'd been accused
>of "plagiarism" (by someone who couldn't tell me what I was supposed
>to be plagiarizing but it was bad enough) and it almost stopped me
>working on Valdyan at all. *Everything* has been done; at least
>everything that works. Even if you go for the most outrageous
>irregularity, chances are that some language somewhere already has
>something like it. If something turns out to work the same as in
>English, you can always try to find out whether you derived it from
>English, or if it just happens to work the same way before you throw
>it away.
>
>   Irina
Oh no, i'm not trying to make it totally absolutely unlike any other
language. I am actually following English somewhat for my sake (to keep it
simpler for me). Adjectives even go before the noun as in English (and
many other languages :)), and compunds work the same way too :). Since i
am no linguist, whatever i think of, as you say, has probably already been
tried and done.
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