Re: help with starting out

At 02:11 25/06/00 EDT, you wrote:
>Hello list.  I have been struggling with starting a conlang. I have taken
>French, German and Latin in school, studied Esperanto and looked at many
>conlangs and read the faq's on conlanging and yet I fall into the same trap
>of creating an unwieldy grammar system that's too complicated and artificial.
Well, can you give us an example of what you find "too complicated and
artificial"? Maybe what's complicated for you would be considered simple by
an Inuit speaker :) . Everything's relative, even very complicated grammars
exist in natlangs. But it's true that if it's your first conlang, you
should try to begin easy.

>I seem to always create inflections that seem to be more systematic than
>inflective. Can anyone give me some words of advice,  or some words of
>encouragement  =) ?    thanks.
>
Well, many natlangs have very systematic inflections. They are called
agglutinative and the most well-known of them are Finnish, Hungarian and
Turkish. Nothing's wrong in having agglutinative languages instead of
inflective. In fact, it's often easier to begin with agglutinative
languages. If you understand French, try at my page
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr, take the Conlangs link and look at my Azak.
It's a heavily agglutinative language, but everything comes out nicely of
it :) .

                                                Christophe Grandsire
                                                |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.

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