Re: Conlang Change and The Definite Article

At 13:51 22/04/00 -0700, you wrote:
>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.
>
Same for me. When I've been working for more than one week on a language,
it becomes quite like stone, and changes are merely additions or
reinterpretations (like when I reinterpreted the stress-accent of Notya as
a pitch-accent, but without changing anything on what I wrote before).
Instead of overhauls, I prefer to make new languages and keep the older
ones as they are.

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                                                |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.

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