Re: conlan/natlang coincidences
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 17, 2003, 18:31 |
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:25:44PM -0400, James W wrote:
> I agree. I am actually thinking that Orêlynna may turn out to be
> a proto-language, which I can then use for deriving others.
That would be cool.
> I had also thought originally that I would make it an a priori language,
> from Latin, but decided against it.
That would actually be an a posteriori language. A priori languages
have their vocabularies made up from scratch, with no relation to
other existing languages (nat or con).
-Mark