Re: A Lang family ...

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Sally Caves wrote:

>I have zero time, but I'd definitely
>be interested.  The best I could probably
>come up with, right now, is a skeleton
>language.  We'll see.  There's no real
>time limit, is there?
That's all right! I'm sure there's room for languages practically
unknown apart from a few inscriptions left by a long forgotten people
that will be discovered millenia from now and puzzled over. At last, a
candle will light over some philologist's head and she shall cry out
"Eureka!"[*] and linguistics history will be rewritten to include the
data from your "skelleton language" - one more little piece in the
Arda-Language family puzzle.

Padraic.
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[*] "I need a towel!"

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>Sally Caves
>scaves@frontiernet.net
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Daniel Andreasson <rymddaniel@...>
>To: <CONLANG@...>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 7:51 AM
>Subject: Re: A Lang family ...
>
>
>> Aidan Grey wrote:
>>
>> >Would anyone else be interested in working together
>> >to create a language family? My idea is that I would
>> >supply the archaic language's details, and then each
>> >person could create the sound changes and such that go
>> >into a sister lang. We could agree on certain features
>> >in the parent lang, and on a location in a (real or
>> >imagined) world so that borrowing from nearby cultures
>> >could take place. It would be very cool to have a
>> >whole language family!
>> >
>> >Any takers?
>>
>> I think it's an excellent idea! I'm not sure if I
>> actually have the time to participate, but this isn't
>> really a relay so anyone could join in on his/her
>> own conditions. I'd like to join in as much as I
>> can. In any case, it will be very interesting to see
>> what everyone can come up with.
>>
>> Very cool to let a group of people work on this language
>> family. Perhaps we will even see different concultures
>> evolve? :)
>>
>> ||| daniel
>>
>>
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