Re: Language Recognition

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 04:22:54AM +0100, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Paul Bennett writes:
> >...
> > I don't remember whether I have a Frath account, but I suspect I've
> > got one somewhere. Regardless, that seems like an outstandingly good
> > idea.
> >...
>
> Ok, starting a page is easy:
>
> http://wiki.frath.net/Conlang_Recognition_Chart
>
> And now, please edit! :-)
Cool! I just added Ebisédian and Tatari Faran.


> >...
> > Knowing us, it risks turning into a full on description of the
> > phonology and phonotactics of each language, and quite possibly
> > morphology/morphosyntax. I guess that's a risk I'll have to live
> > with.
> >...
>
> Hehe.  I tried to keep it short and not give long explanations.
[...]

I think we should stick to the rule that no morphology/phonotactics is
explained, we only describe the appearance of the words. In keeping with
the spirit of the original page, we should base the description more in
terms of the particular set of glyphs employed, and any obvious
outstanding or identifying characteristics (that doesn't require deeper
knowledge of the language).


T

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