Re: Conlang Change and The Definite Article
From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
Date: | Sunday, April 23, 2000, 3:00 |
CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>>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 tend to not like to make drastic sudden changes. So I tend to gradually
add them in. The most recent change was the addition of articles along
with trigger markers in Saalangal, but only because i like them. As with
my scripts, I dont usually like to do major overhauls there, but I did it
for the Saalangal script because it was supposed to be naturalistic (I do
like the changes though).
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