Re: How to learn an incomplete conlang?

Hi!

Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> writes:
> Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
>
> > I *won't* bet that!  There are quite a few Tolkienists who object against
> > any attempt to fill in the gaps Tolkien has left behind. This matter is a
> > constant source of flamewars on the TolkLang and elfling mailing lists.
> > Another source of flamewars are different attempts to fill the same gap...
>
> That is what I was afraid of... I, personally, don't see any plausible
> solution. I don't think somebody can expand Tolkien's product. To make some
> reconstructions? It may work, but different people may come to different
> solutions, and this is Not Good. An, anyway, those reconstructions do not
> fill all the necessary gaps to make the lang workable.
Start a new conlang accidentally identical to a Tokien lang, and
continue under a different name.  Isn't that how open source
development often works? :-)

**Henrik
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