Re: Degaspregos

Quoting Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...>:

> >Degaspregos had a whole series of clitics for functional morphemes.
> >Here're some stuff from my old webpage:
>
> *You* made Degaspregos? I have two problems with it, and they're
> opinion-based.
Um, yeah.  And I gave up on it *years* ago as naive and silly.

Also, is it that well known of a conlang? I get

> First, you have about 35 letters.
That's only if you count the diphthongs as letter-units.
Otherwise, it's a more reasonable 27 letter-units.

> at means you have to make digraphs
> in plenty and perhaps use some diacritical marks, both of which I try to
> limit.
This is kinda getting into meta-auxlanging, which is something *I*
try to limit. But when I create a conlang, I create it based on the
kind of phonology that I like, and only *later* do I start thinking
about how it should be written.

> Second, I don't like the syllabic style, since it allows consonant
> clusters of 3 consonants. I always have a very sparing syllabic style,
> a reaction to English. If I spoke Georgian as a native language, it
> would be worse.
This is all well and fine if you're trying to make a language that
you want to proselytize to the rest of the world. Unfortunately,
I am not such a proselyte.  After I gave up on auxlanging, but while
I was still interested in Degaspregos, the language became an artistic
and philosophical endeavor to make a logical language (ha!) that was
modeled on Proto-Indo-European which, as we all know, was very liberal
with phonotactics. To sacrifice that syllable structure would have
eliminated one of the cardinal characteristics of the language, and
would have made it seem even more nonIE than it already was.

> However, that's just my opinion and my habits.
None taken. :)

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