Re: Conlang Change and The Definite Article

On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 12:03:33 -0400, Doug Ball <db001i@...>
wrote:

>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 rarely made sudden, drastic changes to conlangs, at least until Tirelat
came along. I've done spinoff languages before, but I'd usually keep the
original language without any major changes. Over the years, of course,
numerous changes would accumulate. For instance, I redesigned the system of
verb conjugation in Olaetyan to reduce its similarity to the Spanish and
French verbs which inspired the original system. Eklektu actually split
into two languages, one which kept the syntax and another which kept the
vocabulary.

Tirelat, on the other hand, allowed me to try out drastic changes with
relative ease, and without creating a new language. At first I thought that
things would eventually settle down, and it would result in a better
language. Now I'm not quite as sure, but it was an interesting experiment.

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