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Re: OT: What makes a good conlang? (was Re: Super OT: Re: CHAT: JRRT)

From:Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@...>
Date:Monday, March 8, 2004, 23:55
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 17:10:43 -0500, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> wrote:

>> other hand demonstrate. I'd always prefer a brief sketch which shows >> masterful treatment of certain details over a complete conlang which >> consists of a humdrum, obviously unreflected SAE grammar and a >> randomly generated vocabulary. > >I fully agree. This is one of the main reasons I stayed away from >automatically generating Ebisédian vocabulary in any way, even though that >meant that I have to be content with its incomplete lexicon for many more >years.
I think you are unnecessarily conflating what can be done as two steps: * generate random forms that fulfill the phonotactics of the language * evaluate the forms to intuit what meanings they correspond to Best regards, Jeffrey

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