Re: CHAT: Intro & Chat: New to Language Construction

Natalie Brunelle <renaissance_writer@...> wrote:

>My name is Natalie and I'm new to the list too.  I'm
>also new to language construction.  ...  I'm creating
>a world for the fantasy novel that I'm writing, so I'm
>also creating new cultures and new languages.  (Kind
>of an ambitious project for someone so new.)
Never too ambitious! We've all been new at everything.
Let us know what you're doing. And welcome!


--Pablo Flores
  http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/index.html
  ... I cannot combine any characters that the divine Library
  has not foreseen, which in some of its secret tongues do not
  bear some terrible meaning. No-one can articulate a syllable
  not filled of caresses and fears; which is not, in some one
  of those languages, the powerful name of a god...
                   Jorge Luis Borges, _The Library of Babel_



  I know
>that I want a couple of my languages to be based on
>Swahili, and I want the other languages I develop to
>be based on other African languages, ancient or
>modern.  Fantasy novels these days focus so much on
>European history and culture (and there's nothing
>wrong with that, it's the stuff that made me fall in
>love with the genre).  I'd just like to branch out,
>and give people a look at what can be extracted and
>imagined through African culture.  So if anyone has
>any suggestions for me I'm all ears.  I looking
>forward to talking with everyone.
>
>-Natalie
>
>--- Shreyas Sampat <nsampat@...> wrote:
>> <snips>
>> I'm new too.
>> I have somewhat of a language in the works, and it's
>> bad.  Dreadful.
>> Unutterably, obscenely, horribly bad.
>> I'll post it eventually, though, because you're
>> obviously all much more
>> competent than I and hopefully I'll learn something
>> while you're
>> discussing linguistics with all those big words you
>> use.
>> --
>> -Shreyas
>> Loth 77
>>
>http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/lothlorien/artists/ssampat/ssampat.html
>>
>
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