Re: [TIED] Reanimating Indoeuropean?

Dear Dan:

Don't apologize for what you haven't to do. Sorry I misexplained myself.
Congratulations for you guys, language architects. There should be a career
called LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURE or the like. I was acting like advocatus
diaboli; I have imagined (created?) some conlangs: one, Roman Commune a way
to intercom the neolatin speakers. I've made experiments with Germanic roots
(and tested with different germanic speakers, from England, Friesland,
Danmark and North Germany, you know) and it was very suitable.

But the most attracting idea for me is to reanimate IE and try to adapt it
to modern life. Why not? Personally I taught my 5 years old daughter with
some PIE elements (without any advocation to grammar) and surprisingly for
me, she learnt with almost no mistake. She doesn't know that PIE is no
longer alive. I'm just an amateur therefore I'm not the right teacher.

Go ahead Dan, and welcome.

>From: "Dan Jones" <yl-ruil@2crfm.net>
>Reply-To: cybalist@egroups.com
>To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
>Subject: RE: [TIED] Reanimating Indoeuropean?
>Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 15:56:17 +0100
>
>Manuel Rosario
>
> > Welcome to the Li(nguistic)St(udy)
> > What are the purpose of constructing your own language?
>
>Ask the 200+ people who subscribe to the CONLANG (CONstructed LANGuage)
>list, where we discuss International Auxiliary Languages (but only rarely)
>but mainly "artlangs", which has the idea of language as art. Most of us
>create our own languages for our own amusement, but a good number feature
>in
>books (Quenya, Sindarin, Laadan) and many are "experimants". Laadan was an
>experiment to test the Sapir-Worff hypothesis. For an example of a
>constructed language, look at my sig, it's a phrase from one of my own
>languages, Carash�n, which derives indirectly from PIE.
>
> > I celebrate your
> > Gedankexperiment but you must have into account language is a social
> > phaenomenon rather than an individual creation.
>
>All you have to do is emulate the society which speaks your language,
>thinking out semantic changes and language development.
>
> > However, Daniel: why did you choose celtic or germanic models? it
> > is not a
> > million times worthier to re-animate IE itself (despite of all of us
> > disagree in describing the parent language).
>
>Or, alternatively, derive a daughter language from it, as a way of
>understanding it better. I created a Pseudo-Classical language, Aredos,
>which was based upon PIE. In fact, my first post to the list was about
>something I want to incorporate into ARedos, the dual verbal inflections.
>You see, emulation is a great way of learning.
>
>I try not to be an apologist for Conlangers, but a few good resources on
>the
>net are:
>
>Helge Fauskanger's article, "Tolkien's Not-So Secret Vice,
>http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/vice.htm"
>Dean Easton's "A Conlang FAQ,
>http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/9219/conlangfaq.html"
>
>And others, just follow the links.
>
>Dan
>
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>Lo deu nu preca �l'ais�n necoui. God prays at noone's altar.
>
>Dan Jones: www.geocities.com/yl_ruil/
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>
>

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