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Post by Ambrose Yarwood on Dec 6, 2011 21:25:49 GMT
Constructed languages. Is it worth having them? Can you see a conlang ever becoming popular enough to be spoken by millions? Have you ever tried constructing a language?
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Bayes
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Post by Bayes on Dec 7, 2011 18:48:23 GMT
I have made a partial language for a fantasy roleplaying game. it can add a lot of richness to a setting.
I wouldn't want to try to build a fully functional language however.
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Post by quietgirl on Jan 16, 2012 11:40:11 GMT
I find languages fascinating (although I'm only fluent in English lol), and when I was a child I invented my own country (which I called Snakeland - go figure!) and wrote lots of stories set in it. I made a start at inventing a langauge for it, but only got as far as a few words - as the above poster says, devising a full language is a bit of a tall order, particularly for a child!
Mandy
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Post by rjh01 on Jan 16, 2012 21:23:48 GMT
Language must have a purpose. If you and I can speak to each other in our first language why speak any other language to each other? Sometimes the message must be ultra short, eg SMS so new words are invented. Language will change over time. Fastest change is when two large groups who speak different languages merge. Best example is when the Vikings settled in England. They were not large enough to take over the language, but they did simplify it. For example instead of having child, children (two different words for plurals) you get desk, desks for many plurals.
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