From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 61154
Date: 2008-11-01
> > I really want to know this and therefore also the question of the<snip>
> > legitimacy of "palatals" for the sake of establishing the plausibility
> > and credibility of the IE-derived conlangs that I am inventing and
> > have invented.
> > Andrew
> > =========
> > What is this ?
> > Arnaud
> > ======
> Oh, it's this tedious, time-consuming obsession that I developed about
> 16 years ago which grew out of my childhood fascination with the
> history of English (and the resulting interest in Indo-European) and
> Esperanto, the former of which began around age 7 or 8 and the latter
> of which began around age 11 or 12. What I do is I "invent"
> hypothetical languages that _could_ have evolved from
> (Proto-)Indo-European, according to sound-change laws (and grammatical
> evolutions) that I set down and which are based mostly on precedented
> sound changes.
> If you ever want to see one, I'll upload it to the files section, ifA more appropriate place for conlangs in general is a group such as
> it is permitted -- the rules of Cybalist actually forbid this sort of
> thing. I'll have to ask before I can do any such thing.