Re: Uber newbie-conlanger conlang

On Tuesday 15 March 2005 10:54 +0100, David J. Peterson
wrote:

 > Sai wrote:
 > <<
 > If you think of this a bit, what this means is
 > essentially one of the goals is to be as much like a
 > newbie's conlanger as possible... but more so. Almost,
 > one could say, a parody thereof?

Funny idea, however.

 > Anyway, I think the best thing to do is to look at
 > people's first conlangs (or, if someone's only had one
 > conlang for the whole life, look at the *very* initial
 > stages).  This'll give you an idea of what people do when
 > they first hit upon the idea of creating their own
 > language.  It's basically a window into what someone
 > thinks language is, and that's really fascinating.

It is. It gives you insight in how people think their L1
works. OK, I basically have known very much about that
already then, because in classes 3-8 we dealt very much
with grammar.

 > If you want some concrete examples, I'm working on a page
 > for my first conlang, Megdevi.  It's there to describe
 > the language, and also to point out what *not* to do.  I
 > wasn't ever going to put anything up on the web about it,
 > but it showed up in Langmaker's Top 200, so I feel like I
 > owe it to those who think it's a good language to set the
 > record straight.
 >
 > The site is here:
 >
 > http://dedalvs.free.fr/megdevi.html
 >
 > The page isn't finished, but I think for your purposes,
 > all the information you'd want is already up.

So let's add Ve Segelm to the firstlangs to be slaughtered
as well then: www.beckerscarsten.de/conlang/vesegelm
<http://www.beckerscarsten.de/conlang/vesegelm> --
Just if you'd like to have a look at one of the things I'm
least proud of because it's basically German grammar with
some odd ends (pun intended!) added ... I was already 16
then.

Carsten

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