Re: Why grammar is so complex a subject

Which is what I suggested - half in jest - should be done with all the
"conlangs" made by various musicians and left completely undocumented by
their creators. ;)

Wesley Parish

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:41, Jim Henry wrote:
> On 12/27/05, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> > Therefore conlangs should not be "designed", they
> > should be "used into existence." Their "grammar"
> > should never be discussed, but only demonstrated with
> > a catalog of exemplars (exceptions, all). Their
> > phonology should never be analyzed, but only produced
> > in real time, as needed, with assorted mouth noises.
> > Their lexicon must never be planned, but only
> > documented AFTER the fact. They should be taught by
> > example only, not by enumeration of so-called "rules"
> > which don't really exist anyway.
>
> A while ago there was a collaborative conlang project
> which consisted of various conlangers contributing
> sentences to a corpus, and making speculative
> analyses of the grammar and lexicon based upon
> the corpus.  I can't recall the name, however, and can't
> seem to find the right search terms to find it.
>
> --
> Jim Henry
> http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry
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