Re: Results of a preliminary experiment

>>>> Gary Shannon<fiziwig@...> 12/15/2004 10:56:11 AM >>>
>Here are the first results of a preliminary experiment
>in conlang creation using an early childhood reader.
>The sentences are from the online etext of McGuffey's
>first reader from Project Gutenberg:
>http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1489
>
>The experimental protocal was as follows:
[snip protocol]

Lots accomplished in 90 minutes!

>Here is the conlang that resulted from that 90 minute
>experiment: http://fiziwig.com/conexp.txt
Nice! Granted, it's not terribly naturalistic, but could be a proto-lang to
which you apply a lot of sound changes, etc. to go for a more "original"
result. I like the idea of using a reading primer for "evolving" the lang.
I will need to do that if I can get back to working on emindahken. I'll
need to rewrite some of the sentences to allow for concultural differences
(no clocks, for ex.). But should be a great way to tackle the process in
bite-sized pieces. I tend to try to figure out things all at once, even in
composing, and that slows the process down a lot.

Good stuff.


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James W.

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