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RE: [romconlang] Digest Number 210




 huge thanks to everyone who commented.

> > >  anybody have any thoughts about it? (it's in
> > > the Files section).

Dude, you just took an arbitrary slice out of an
online dictionary, with very inaccurate glosses
(which isn't your fault, strictly speaking...  but
still, a tool misused is not necessarily a bad
tool) and had the computer make one or two automatic
letter subsitutions.  I'm all for supporting new and
inexperienced conlangers, but that's just lazy.

actually...that was a suggestion to me...from a more experienced conlanger -- that I start out w�th letter replacement...and advance from there...particularly if I wanted to evolve NatLangs.



Your "unnamed conlang" as posted on the conlang list
is already a lot more original.

thank you.

 Less automation,
more manual work, that's the way.  Takes a lot more
time, granted, but at least you'll end up with an
artwork of your own,

true.

*the* translation.  For example, you have "abide" as
the translation of *29* different Latin words!
Doesn't that seem strange to you?

yes...but so does a lot of things.
:)

Hope that helps.

Immensely!


Remember you can always retcon history and population migration if
necessary (mercenaries are useful here).

You clearly favor palatalization, which is a good starting point.

yep...just as soon as I understand the word...palatalization...


You seem to favor dropping final vowels. This, too, is a good start.
Consider the variant forms that this, combined with palatalization,
produces in declensions and conjugations - and make sure you have a
reference for the two.

um...what sort of reference?  (so I am not caught unawares later on list).


that syllable is long. It is stressed on the antepenultimate if the

um...when is the antepenultimate?

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