Re: The Saharan page (was: Basque article)

grandsir wrote:



> This man claims to use historical evidence to prove his theory, but
> expect for the Bible (which is a very good place to find historical
> facts, every one knows that ;( ),
Well... it is better than many have thought in the past.  Until they dug
up the ruins of Assurbanipal's palace in what they discovered to be the
Biblical Nineveh, most historians thought the stories in the Bible about the
Assyrians were entirely fictitious, designed simply so as to aggrandize the
plight of the Jewish people.

This is of course has little to no bearing on Mr. Nyland's beliefs.

>         Sorry for such a post, but that page was too much to accept, I had to
> share my feelings about it.
Don't worry about it! I'm sure almost everyone who read the page felt
similar feelings, including myself.  But one must move on...

>         Well, now I feel better. I hope I didn't bother anybody. To be more
> conlang-related (at least at the end of the post :) ), has anybody ever
> used this mechanism to create new words (taking first syllable or
> syllables of some words and putting them together), and does this
> mechanism exist in natlangs (it would be an interesting kind of
> compounding)?
I highly doubt the latter idea.  The only way I can think of that this would
occur in natural situations is in the same way that children use Pig Latin
and other such codes, or alternatively, it could perhaps be used in sacred
rites of some religion to enhance the mystical nature of the act.

As for my own conlanging, no I have never used such a system.  Degaspregos
was, of course, based (almost) entirely on reconstructed Proto-Indo-European
vocabularly, so that limited somewhat what I could achieve with respect to
manipulation of the vocabulary.  Mostly the only option was when a particular
meaning had more than one possible reconstruction (initial *s in some locations
seemed to be a variable, for instance).

As for Phaleran, I haven't even worked out a system yet for vocabulary generation...
so I can't really answer yet.

>         Well, thank you for reading everything till here, and thank you for
> your patience
Like I said, don't worry about it.  You always have something productive and
intelligent to say, so I for one would like to hear more! :)

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