Re: Language revival (was Re: Which auxlangs? (was Re: I won't [to] start a flame war))
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 15, 1999, 3:58 |
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On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 08:12:59 +0100, Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
wrote:
>I've even known some conlangs get criticized simply for being
>relexifications of natural languages - a little unfair IMO since =
people's
>first attempts at conlanging tend to be just this. (But if some one - =
who
>ought to know better - makes extravagant claims for such a relex, then =
that
>is another matter.)
My first conlang (Olaetyan) had a verb paradigm almost identical to
Spanish, the only non-English language I knew at the time. The current
paradigm (see http://www.io.com/~hmiller/OlaetyanGrammar.html) is =
somewhat
modified from the original (I've eliminated the compound tenses and =
changed
the meaning of some of the other tenses).
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languages of Kolagia---> =
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