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Re: Newbie says hi

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Friday, November 1, 2002, 6:43
 --- Mat McVeagh skrzypszy:

> Is that a real Polish word? LOL! ('wrote'?)
No. It means "wrote" indeed, but the Polish word would have been "napisa£". This is an example of my conlang Wenedyk, derived from Latin "scripsi". I'll soon be posting something about Wenedyk.
> Talina is roughly east Switzerland and west Austria. Basically... Ruman = > Rumansch, only without actually being Rumansch ;)
So occasionally it usurps Liechtenstein as well?
> There seems to be an interesting category of ficlangs that are the > development of some ancient language according to the style of another.
Indeed! It is a very particular type of conlang. I must admit, that I enjoy working on it a lot.
> Andrew Smith seems to have started the ball rolling with Brithenig.
So it seems. Although I can't imagine that nobody has ever tried the same thing before. But Brithenig has certainly been the main inspiration for quite a few languages, including mine. And to answer a question you asked in another post:
> >You might also want to look at Gladilation, which has no verbs. > > Where can I find that?
http://home.cshore.com/himes/glad/lang.htm Cheers, Jan ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com