Re: tweaking your conlang

li [Rick Harrison] mi tulis la ...

> 
> I think my first major project (Vorlin) is a worst case scenario of
> endless tweaking. Originally starting as an a priori philosophical
> auxlang and ending up as an a posteriori artlang. The only thing that
> remained constant was the idea that the vocabulary was based on nouns
> of Consonant-Vowel-Consonant shape.

That's how things go.  Vorlin is one of the languages that
inspired some of Sasxsek's original features, like the CVC
lexemes, but it too evolved into something else as I saw the
need to accomodate other things.

> In retrospect I wish I had created several offspring of Vorlin along
> the way, instead of repeatedly demoli****ng and rebuilding Vorlin. I
> could have had one variant with lots of Chinese vocabulary, another
> variant with all the vocab from Germanic and Slavic, etc.

I know that feeling well.  Every once in a while I get that
tendency to scrap everything I've done and start over with a
different approach.  Usually that results in another project
rather than a variation.


Speaking of a priori, philosophical languages.  I've got one
that's also part loglang with an oligosynthetic vocabulary.  I
have a good idea how I want everything structured, but I'm stuck
on labeling the morphemes.  At some point recently I've got the
idea to create a basic vocabulary based upon known phonosemantic
universals, or at least strong phonosemantic tendencies across
languages.  The lack of available information on the subject has
me stuck right now.  So far there are about 5 morph/lex-emes
that are pretty firmly in place like "ma" (mother) and "pa"
(father).  I've also added "mai" (this) and "tau" (that) based
upon a some of the information I have been able to find.


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