Re: Take my poll on the Conlang Page

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:

> --- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> screeved:
>
> > Quoting Akhilesh Pillalamarri
> > <valardil@...>:
> >
> > >
> > > Take my poll on the conlang page: what group
> > > of languages is your language closest too?
My current project, Føtisk, is a basically Ingvaeonic (Anglo-Frisian) West
Germanic language which later has some Northern Germanic influence, though
I haven't got to that stage yet. I like doing old languages, not having to
worry about typoes or strict orthographick rules. Modern languages have
their good features too, though; you can have incredibly complicated
orthographic rules about things like hyphenation (I like some of the old
German rules like ck becomes k-k or in compounds tt might become tt-t (I
think)). Though these seem to be going out of vogue, I imagine because of
common literacy and Evil American Software Companies not considering
complexities so people forget about them. Fortunately as a minority
language, I can say the Føts are very nationalistic and kept their
orthographic complexities. Though it'll be a while before I get to then.

(BTW: What's the 'proper' way of asciifying <ø> (o-slash)? <Oe>, same as
<ö> and oe-ligature? Føtisk, you see, is something of the English name of
the language because it doesn't match the various Føtisk orthographies
(and becomes almost all my conlangs have an anglicised name), and it seems
a bit absurd for the English name to contain ø, which could only be
remotely justified by saying it was borrowed via Danish, not altogether
unlikely. So I may decided to rename it Foetish or something, if ø should
be oe.)

--
Tristan

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