Re: tolkien?
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 12, 2003, 11:04 |
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At 00:31 10.12.2003, Camilla Drefvenborg wrote:
><rant>
>I've recently discovered a danger of having done that, however. now
>that my conlang's dictionary has grown large enough, one can clearly
>see conceptual associations for some of the root's initial letters,
>even though I've made every effort _not_ to systemise it.
>
>I've unconsciously become a loglanger and I'd like some medicine.
></rant>
Even JRRT fell into that trap at times.
FYI not even computer-generated roots are
a sure protection -- and Sohlob has gone
through a couple of more and less loglangy
phases. I hope in the end the opposing
tendencies will cancel each other out so as
to create a really naturalistic impression!
(Man kan ju alltid hoppas! :)
/BP 8^)
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