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R: Re: Committed: (was Printed Conlang stuff?)

From:Mangiat <mangiat@...>
Date:Sunday, January 7, 2001, 11:32
Jim Hopkins wrote:

> On the other hand I find that it has contributed greatly to the stability
of
> the Druni language. Over the past three years I have progressively
hesitated
> to make additional changes in the Druni language as more and more of it
gets
> into print. > > For example: I now have T-shirts, posters, books, even a clock in Druni. > Needless to say these things would be difficult to change. So I have
allowed
> the principle of what I call "canonicity" to take effect.
You can always introduce innovations in dialects... or say that the sentence you've printed on the clock is written in a somehow dialectal variety of Druni. Just a thought. Luca