Re: MADJAL: A conlang game. Round one. (longish)
| From: | Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 1, 2004, 5:59 |
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--- David Peterson <ThatBlueCat@...> wrote:
> So...is it first-come first-served? 'Cause if so,
> we all just got punked by
> aws@PLD.COM. When's the website gonna be up? I
> can see myself
> doing this much.
>
> -David
>
It can't possibly be first come, first served or we'd
all be speaking like Chaucer. :)
The way I was going to do it was to just add
everything anybody contributees to the corpus.
As the corpus ages, the oldest 1/4 (by span of time)
will be designated "Ancient Madjal", the next oldest
will be "Old Madjal", the next 1/4 is "Middle Madjal"
and the most recent 1/4 is "Modern Madjal".
That way, usage and vocabulary that doesn't catch on
enough to keep appearing in the new additions to the
corpus eventually fall into the "Ancient Madjal"
category, and become extinct.
If the corpus grows for, say a month, and then stops
growing for the next three months then the whole
corpus is in the oldest 1/4 (time-wise) and the entire
language becomes "Ancient Madjal" and it goes extinct.
--gary