Re: Do your conlangs affect each other?

Hallo!

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:35:10 -0400, Jim Henry wrote:

> The theta-role postposition system of gzb has influenced the case
> systems of some of my other conlangs, both engelangs and artlangs;
> and gzb itself borrowed a few words from my earlier artlangs.
> There's some phonotactic similarity between gzb and a couple
> of my more recent artlangs, but I don't think it's so much gzb
> influencing them as my own lamatyave shaping all of them in
> similar ways.
I know what you are talking about.  Old Albic is where I let
my lamatyave run free, and I am often tempted to reuse all
those ideas in other, unrelated conlangs for their perceived
prettiness and niftiness - but then, I manage to say to myself
"Don't relex Old Albic - do something else".  After all, most
of what I do in Old Albic would be out of place in both the
Indo-European artlangs and the experimental languages.  And,
as I wrote earlier in this thread, I feel that ideas ought not
to be reused without need.

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