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Re: Droppin' D's Revisited

From:Robert Hailman <robert@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 24, 2000, 2:57
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > En réponse à Robert Hailman <robert@...>: > > > > > I've taken a look at it, and it looks really nice. I don't know enough > > about Latin or the Romance languages to comment on it much, but if I > > come across something that doesn't seem right I'll tell you about it. I > > haven't yet. > > > > One thing I'd like to see is a chart of the sound changes employed > > between Latin and Reman, if there is one I must've missed it. > > > > The point is that there is none: I didn't devise Reman by deriving words from > Latin through sound changes, but merely by looking at Latin, French, Spanish, > Italian, etc... and try to devise words differently. Also, the grammar was > devised as such: "Well, I want to have this feature, let's see how we can mangle > Latin so that it appears" :))) > Yet I tried to be consistent in my choices, so I think it's not impossible to > study Reman and find the sound changes that made Latin evolve into it. But the > job of finding those sound changes has yet to be done, and having only one state > of the language (the current one) doesn't help. Still it could be interesting... > if only I could find an only resource about actual Vulgar Latin pronunciation...
That's an interesting approach. Probably how I'd do it too, if I didn't have the annoying habit of feeling "incomplete" if I don't do everything the "right" way, whatever I may percieve that to be.
> I'm devising "Roumant" nearly the same way, except that I don't try to go as far > as Reman. "Roumant" is more "classical" as a Romance lang :) . I also try to be > more consistent by using what I know about sound changes that made Latin evolve > into the different Romance langs.
Concistency can be good, yes. I look forward to hearing more about Roumant too. It'd be interesting to compare the same text translated into Reman & Roumant, see whats the same and whats different. -- Robert