Quoting Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>:
> Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...>:
>
> > Henrik Theiling skrev:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Benct Philip Jonsson writes:
> > >> I'm trying to create a sister language to Gothic which
> > >> is thought to have been spoken by Burgundians in 12th
> > >> century Gaul...
> > >
> > > Your brainstorming sounds very interesting and I am very
> > > eager to read more. :-)
> > >
> > > **Henrik
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for the kind words. Can you think of any not yet
> > tried but also not too drastic or exotic way of messing
> > up Common Germanic? I guess that's what I'm asking for...
>
> How about moving stress backwards, and then start dropping pretonic vowels?
That was meant to have a smiley. I imagine it's a bad case of "drastic"!
Andreas