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Re: Take my poll on the Conlang Page

From:Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
Date:Sunday, January 4, 2004, 4:30
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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Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>