Re: Family Project votes

Am 07/31 21:50  Aidan Grey yscrifef:
>   Heya,
>
>    A new list on yahoo
>    IE level
>    an alternate Earth
>
Hurrah!

>    With as many people as we have (yippee!) IE level
> seems most appropriate, and this should be extremely
> interesting! I'll supply the parent, and will also be
> creating a daughter lang.
>
As people are eager to start I would suggest that an incomplete sketch
is only necessary at this stage: basic grammar, phonology, phonotactics,
sample lexicon.  Then stand back as us daughter linguafictors all plunge
in and start playing.  We can invent words from 'unknown sources' if
need be, and if we have problems we can discuss them with 'Mother'
(Aidan).  The mother language can be posted to the new list when it's
up.

>    Next to last question before I make the list and
> get things going:
>
>    Since the parent language isn't quite developed yet
> (I've got _some_ stuff), I figure we should name the
> new list for the planet. Any ideas?
>
>    I thought we could call it Arda, to honor Tolkien,
> who got many of us into this hobby.
>
It's a nice homage.  May I suggest embellishing it to Arda-Lang to
honour its relationship to the Conlang family of lists?

>    I've got more questions, but they can wait for the
> list, except for one.
>
>    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). He thought he'd borrow a lot from our langs,
> and that we might borrow from his as well. 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?
>
I don't mind a first contact late in the piece, but I think I would want
to know more about what this gentleman is doing with his project before
endorsing it.  In a group of this size the amount of creative control
people want may vary.

Membership by invitation may not be a bad idea.

I also like the idea of a generated map as Mario suggested, but let's
press ahead for now.

- andrew.
--
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