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Conlangs? #14

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kestal opened this issue Nov 14, 2016 · 4 comments
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Conlangs? #14

kestal opened this issue Nov 14, 2016 · 4 comments

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@kestal
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kestal commented Nov 14, 2016

Yes/no? (c.f. #8)

@lord-koko
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I'm not sure.
First I would have said no, because of different risks.
Might be ridiculous, might be not well done enough, will be too much work. Other things.

But more and more is growing in me the desire of making one, just for fun.

For which culture should we do it ?
The humans of Kestalis/Littlefall realms ?
Dwarves ?
Elves ?
Southern Islands humans ?
Others ?

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kestal commented Nov 15, 2016

We could start by defining a partial Ur-language, that would give us some lexicon of root words, on which we could for instance base many different humans (maybe even dwarfish) languages, and more importantly proper nouns.
This would then allow us to focus the effort on a little piece, and do the rest more mechanically.

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ghost commented Dec 13, 2016

I'm really for it, but in my opinion it should be done in a very professional and exhaustive way. For example the Tolkien Middle Earth languages brings something to his work, but he did it really well, and he was a linguist too.

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kestal commented Dec 14, 2016

The problem is that doing it in a professional and exhaustive way is not something we could reasonably do. We have no notion of linguistics.
I think the idea of just defining root words for now is a good compromise as it would allow us to already have something to play with and to construct proper names, while keeping the hard part for later, so that somebody that would be comfortable enough with this sort of stuff could try and tackle this.

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