Re: What criteria do you have for your own or others' languages?
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 13, 2006, 8:34 |
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The only criteria I've consistently applied to Tanala, Erava, Yhe Vala Lakha,
and my other languages, appears to be : "Thou shalt not relex English".
Relexing English would be fine if I was doing a Pidgin trade language or a
Creole, but since the only Creole I've got happens to be a mixture of
several - mostly incomplete - Yhe Ghye Ineat conlangs, it's the very last
thing I want to do.
Wesley Parish
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 21:27, Sai Emrys wrote:
> This is in prep for an essay I'm writing - to revise my /On the design
> of an ideal language/ essay into something more clearly meta and
> complete. (And also address the question of 'conlanging "schools"',
> etc.)
>
>
> Please list, in your own words (preferably detailed) what criteria you
> apply to conlangs to judge them to be (in your opinion / for your
> purposes) "better" or "worse", or more or less "likable" or
> "impressive" etc etc. They can be subjective, objective, or both.
>
> Please don't get into whether some criteria are better or worse than
> *other* criteria; that is definitely not what I am asking. I'm ONLY
> asking about how YOU evaluate languages; i.e. what YOU like in them
> (when choosing which you want to learn, how you want to make
> something, or what other conlangs you think are really cool and 'well
> done').
>
> - Sai
>
> P.S. ZBB thread on same topic here:
>
http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?t=19983