Pandora's Box
This is a crosspost from the ZBB, because I think I done wrote something good and it would be madness to leave it languishing in C&CQ. It is, in effect, a practical extension of the first sermon.
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It has occurred to me that my original Heterodoxy post has a problem: it's targeted primarily at people who already somewhat know what they're doing. Heck, it's pretty much a post to tell myself to be less silly.
So here is a bit of presumably even less controversial (should I rename this series "Orthodoxy"?) advice to people who are either starting out or have managed to avoid learning for a long time. (…)
I was lying in bed yesterday thinking about things like this, so I'mma write it down. There will be sequels on the finer points, but anyway have a bit of basic RPG combat typology. (…)
Ex foris
What I usually do is start with the "present-day" forms (for whatever value of present day) and then see where I can introduce cool diachronically motivated stuff. Usually that means making up some stuff, coming up with a "reconstruction" that could explain it, change stuff to fit these proto-forms, then decide I want the modern language to be different and changing the proto-forms accordingly, and so on. I'm not sure I have a really good example of this anywhere — I'm pretty terrible at publishing my stuff — but most of my conlangs change wildly until their prehistory is mostly clear, and then they kind of settle down.
in thread: On Early Conlang Development
pthag chuckles
< pthag> you mean the chaos emeralds?in thread: Quote Thread
in thread: What are you listening to?
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