Re: Refining Minza
From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
Date: | Saturday, July 14, 2007, 2:57 |
Jeff Rollin wrote:
> Why not consolidate some of those changes into different dialects, instead?
> You could also have them make small grammatical changes, or changes that
> depend on sociolect, e.g. extending the use of perfect tenses to cover all
> past tenses in speech, or by lower class (Minzans?), as in French.
It might be best to give Minza a place in one of the worlds where my
fictional languages are spoken, but there are problems with that. Minza
has borrowed words from languages spoken all over the place, some in
worlds that don't have any contact with each other. What I could do, I
suppose, is identify a core Minza language without all the borrowings
from the other languages, and expand on that.