Re: Ephphatha

Hallo!

On Mon, 17 May 2004 12:31:00 +0100,
Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...> wrote:

> What was the thing that first opened your mind to the exciting
> possibilities of language? For me, it was studying Latin, which had a basic
> word order different from English, and also a great deal of freedom to vary
> that word order because of its inflecting morphology. It showed me, in a
> way that French never had, that it was possible for a language to work in a
> significantly different way from my own (I had been studying French at
> school for one year before I started Latin, and the course was more
> oriented towards basic communication than grammar). It was shortly after
> that that I created Lingu Scribem, my first attempt at a conlang (The
> Inevitable Euroclone).
Latin also was what I protracted the "language bug" from.
I found its inflectional paradigms and syntactic flexibility
beautiful and fascinating, and most of my earlier conlangs were
very much like Latin (only more regular).  And I still like the style
of Latin, Greek, Sanskrit or similar languages, and Old Albic
(my current main conlang project) owes much to them.

Greetings,

Jörg.