Re: Droppin' D's Revisited

Hi guys,
Interesting discussion....

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 05:59:08 -0700, Barry Garcia
<Barry_Garcia@...> wrote:
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>
>Well, for me, since i'm working with my own, i thought the best idea for
>me was to figure out all the sound changes I want, and record them. This
>way, i can look over the common ones, then look over my additional ones,
>and come up with something different from actual romance langs. I can see
>what these languages do, and then try and think of a way that's plausible
>that I can do to make it veer away from those languages.
I've usually tried to work out the sound changes first, too, in derived
conlangs. It can get tricky, though. One problem I've had in my Romance
conlang(s) is that certain words (such as Latin habere) require special
rules, if the language is to be comparable to actual Romance languages.
>
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>Well, i've been leaning towards a personal lang with this only, but i do
>kind of like the idea of having it a plausible Romance Lang (Problem is,
>where do I put them? In the mediterranean, i have to think up who they
>would have come into contact with, if they were conquered, by who, and
>also, i'd have to think about those influences.).
>
I have this problem, too. I tend to conclude that the actual language and
history of Corsica must be wrong!

Jeff