Re: Correction, I hope, of M/C URL

At 8:50 pm +0000 18/3/00, And Rosta wrote:
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>If conlangs are likened to cities, then Teonaht would be an ancient one
>with lots of winding alleys, whereas Livagian would be a modern one,
>forever being rebuilt on the same site (with each new phase of building
>demolishing previous ones still incomplete).
...while 'briefscript' had its perimeter marked out decades ago (seems
almost eons ago) with its main streets & avenues marked out. But the site
lies fallow too often so that when one returns one first has to clear away
the weeds, bushes etc that have grown up over the site before finding where
those streets are again.  At least And's city has been named and it gets
some buildings each time :)


>So as a conlanging project
>Livagian is (at a stretch) decades-long, but as a language few parts
>of it have so far ever been more than about five years old (tho O! would
>that this would change!).
My vocalic system has lasted longer :)
But it wouldn't mind if a few other parts could even make it to five years
<sigh>

Actually the consonantal system lasted a couple of decades; but when some
conlangers helped clear away the overgrowth, the system crumbled in places
and needs repair.

>Of course, to have a decades-long conlanging
>project it helps to be a few decades old oneself; here Sally has a slight
>edge on most of us,
Nah - both you & Sally are young whipper-snappers.

>and I myself seem to be becoming older than average
>for this list (what with most old-timers drifting away, and a perpetual
>influx of frighteningly precocious 14 year olds joining us).
I'm still here.
But if only the net had been around when I was 14!  I think briefscript'd
been named, built & inhabited by now.

Ray.

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