Re: Family Project votes

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Aidan Grey wrote:

>   I've got a gentleman who emailed me privately. He
>doesn't really want to participate in the language
>family thing, per se, but would like to place his
>conlang there as sort of a later addition (new
>colonists from the Federation, or something of the
>sort).
Begs the question of what level of technology / society
are we invlolved with? I know there can be a range even
within modern language families, but it'd be nice to
sort this out early on. I don't want to go into this
expecting Bronze Age Nomads, only to find out that they're
about to sweep down out of the high steppes into the
middle of an intergalactic metropolitan space port.

>He thought he'd borrow a lot from our langs,
>and that we might borrow from his as well.
I certainly wouldn't mind his language being there as a
"neighbouring" but unrelated language. In the way IE langs
borrow from non-IE languages.

Padraic.

> I don't
>know much about what he plans or has in mind (I plan
>to ask him) beyond he wants his own government. Are
>the participants (and our observers Iain, Roger, and
>David P.) okay with this, or would you all prefer to
>keep the planet just to us?
>
>   Aidan
>
>
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