Re: conlan/natlang coincidences
| From: | James W <jworlton@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 17, 2003, 19:00 |
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"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
>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
Of course. What wasn't I thinking... Orêlynna IS an a priori language, but I
originally thought it would be a posteriori.
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James Worlton
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