Re: Uber newbie-conlanger conlang

Drat; went to Sai privately....

> I think Sally's response says it all. LOL
>
> I did devise, early on, a "naming language" for interplanetary adventures
> that involved spellng things backwards-- Regor Sllim, Doowgad Daetsmub,
> and Otamot Puos come to mind; and an Engl. "code" that switched the vowels
> around, and the consonants, so it was still pronounceable, but those never
> got past the play stage.
>
> My first usable conlang (#2) was basically 1st-year Latin with lots of
> a-priori vocab. and verb/case endings.
> --The nominative was -ud; the dative was -ainigi; vocative was -o; that's
> all I remember, but there was genitive, acc., abl. too.
> --bhlithé was 'I am', bhlishu '3s is' but most verbs IIRC were regular.
> There may not have been a subjunctive-- that wasn't covered in my 1st year
> course, though I knew about it from reading my mother's old college
> grammar.
> --Adjectives weren't declined, and ended in -ane.
> --I considered the lack of "and" a very radical feature.
> --The phonology was a hash; there was a mixed syllabary/alphabet of sorts,
> but it was incomplete, so some sequences of sounds simply didn't/couldn't
> occur. That dative ending for ex. was a single symbol....
> --Pity it got lost, actually. There were lots of texts.
>
> By the time I got around to Kash, ~25 years later, I was tainted by grad.
> school and Indonesian linguistics. Kash has lots of Indonesian-y features,
> though it's hardly a relex. (IMO)
>
> I'm fearful Gwr may become a clone of Chinese or Vietnamese-- but since I
> know next to nothing about those languages, it will all be
> impressionistic.