Re: [romconlang] GMP
| From: | andrew <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 7, 2008, 4:19 |
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On Sun, 06 Jan 2008, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> Philip Newton skrev:
> > On Jan 4, 2008 12:42 PM, Mark J. Reed
> >
> > <markjreed@...> wrote:
> >> So, ah, what the heck is a GMP? :)
> >
> > Grand Master Plan - set of sound changes for deriving a
> > language from a parent language (e.g. Portuguese from
> > Vulgar Latin).
> >
> > Cheers,
>
> The term was coined by Andrew, who perhaps felt that his GMP
> for Brithenig[^1] wasn't strict and/or explicit enough to be
> called a historical phonology -- at least that is how I
> construe the difference between the two terms --, or perhaps
> because it is not chronologically ordered, and thus even
> fictionally not strictly historical. I suppose it is a
> jocular reference to the more or less secret agenda which
> supervillains and Grand Conspiracies are supposed to have.
I was being facetious when I coined the phrase, and the name is stuck.
I suspect the original reference can be found in the Sessiwn Archives
as I announced it there, happy memories! I did have a cat when I wrote
up my GMP, but I have never refered to her as Mr. Bigglesworth :)
Since then the phrase has become popular among language designers whose
projects characterised by alternative sound changes. The Brithenig GMP
is based on the book Language and History in Early Britain which covers
changes in Welsh between the fall of the Roman Empire and approximately
the 12th Century. I consider it a modest effort compared to what
others have done.
> Anyway the term struck, and is used for any set of rules for
> deriving an historical conlang from its ancestor, regardless
> of degree and kind of elaboration. I for one would not use
> the term when talking about historical phonologies of
> natlangs, like Portuguese.
>
> Andrew, since you're probably listening, please correct my
> inferences!
>
You summoned me? (Note to self: invest in Brimstone-scented
pyrotechnics!)
- andrew.
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