From: "Doug Ball"
> Sally Caves wrote:
> > not a conscious change I'm making "overnight" (as some people do when
they do
> >a major conlang rehaul)
> I believe that I would be one of the people that Sally is referring to. I
> rarely make gradual changes, but seem to overhaul things quite suddenly
and
> quite drastically. It seems that it tends to happen at least once a year
> (although this year there's been at least three kind of major changing
> sessions), and it seems to be a sort of necessary part of my conlanging
> experience, i.e. there seems to be some uncontrollable aspect to it. Do
> others of you experience the same sort of thing? How often do you change
> your conlang(s)? Are you in the slow process-camp or the overnight-camp?
I'm a slow camper. And more often than not, the changes are not changes at
all, but become additions, which I like because it's nice to have more than
one way to say the same thing or because it sometimes offers an additional
level of depth or simplicity. Any major overhauls were made over ten years
ago.
Kou