Re: Yet another new one

En réponse à Christian Koettl <h9551046@...>:

> It seems I am also constructing my own English - so many mistakes in
> just one mail! I am sorry for that, as I have sent the message before
> correcting it and especially correcting my misuse of English tenses.
> Sorry.
>
Well, apart from indeed the slight misuse of tenses (which at first I had not
seen. Only when I read this one I came back to your first mail and saw what you
meant :)) ), your English seemed quite correct to me. But then, as a Frenchman
I'm probably not the best judge in that case :)) .

> And there is something else I want to clarify: I am designing "three
> families of languages" because I try to flesh out a fantasy setting.
> Thus, I don't plan to design dozens of languages: If a newbie like me
> would  claim that, it would be nothing else than bragging.
Why? You wouldn't be the first one to try that, even as a newbie. As long as
you don't pretend to have dozens of languages being developped *at the same
time*, because in that case we would question the length of your days :)) .

 But the idea
> of three families gives me the possibilty to create three different sets
> of languages which their own, distinct features but with many loan words
> and loaned features too. I have already seen that this is a very popular
> theme as many conlangers build settings for their language and construct
> interacting languages.  I started working on my project six years ago,
> but nevertheless I am far away from completing anyone of the
> languages.
>
I wish I had that perseverance in my conlanging. But I seem not to be able to
stay more than six months on the same project. Even Itakian (my latest project)
is currently stopped because I'm writing a complete grammar of Astou (an old
project of mine that I'm currently updating).

> Finally, I promise that I won't send a second message after every
> message I wrote - but in this case, it seemed necessary to me.
>
Well, this list is quite forgiving when it comes to language use. It's really
an international list, and we're not many to master English like a native (I'm
not personally :)) ).

> Christian.
>
You are the second Christian of the list IIRC (at least with this spelling).
The other one is German too IIRC (yep, a lot of IIRC, because I don't know for
sure anymore :)) ).

Still, I'm the only Christophe! Yeah! (I don't count the Christophers, that's
quite a different beast :)) ).

Christophe.

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