Re: Why my conlangs SUCK!!!

Gary Shannon wrote:
[snip lots of humorous ranting]
>
> What I have in mind is to start out by mutating
> English in the direction of Latin, and then about
> halfway there hanging a sharp right turn and making a
> beeline toward Bantu and Swahili.  But before I make
> landfall on the East African coast I'll make a tight
> turn to the southeast and head straight for Polynesia,
> picking up floating bits of grammar whenever they fall
> into my net.  Then I'll come back home by way of
> classical Sanskrit and see what the language looks
> like after that kind of random messing about.
>
> Whatever it becomes, it won't be English and it won't
> be simplistic, and it will have the chaotic richness
> of a natural language. I hope.
>
> --gary
I had the thought that you could start with the changes to the grammar
and then take the spelling into some 'regularizing' direction. It might
make the language easier to learn if the more drastic changes appear on
forms that look recognizeable instead of the other way 'round.

my 2 cents.
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