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Re: New Lang, but Just For Fun

From:Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 18, 2000, 22:43
> Not as pretty as Jennifer's Romance lang, but amusing enough. Really, > though, I harbor a secret desire to make a Romance lang spoken in the > east, maybe somewhere between Romania and Russia, so it can use the > Cyrillic alphabet. That would be fun, yeah, it would have lots of > Slavic inflences too (read: retention of case inflection). Oh well, > midterms start tomorrow, and I'd better get to work! > > Nicole </silly post>
Hmm. I'm not sure it is so silly. I really kind of like it, although maybe because I know nothing about Japanese and wish that I did. As far as implausible -- sure, but this is *art*, not science. Call it a "what if": what if Japan had contact with Rome?