Re: CHAT: query: where to start?

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 01:58:42PM -0400, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
[snip]
> I'm trying for an Oriental-ish culture, so probably I'll lean more toward
> Semitic/Japanese-Korean influences (wish I could tackle Chinese or
> Indonesian or some *other* Asiatic languages, but those are the only two
> I know anything about).
[snip]

I'm semi-competent in Malay (which is very close to Indonesian, just
like Spanish and Portuguese are close to each other), so I might be able
to help you if you have specific questions about it.

I can also speak Mandarin quite fluently, but never studied its grammar
seriously, so I might be weaker on that. (Not that Chinese grammar has
that much depth, since it's so analytic :-)

BTW I'm new to the list too... just found it last week, in fact. I've been
dabbling with making a conlang for a long time, but never really knew what
is needed until I started looking on the web, and found the LCK and this
mailing list.


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