On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Israel Noletto wrote: > > 1st (choices 1 through 3) Why have you started conlanging? > ( ) Professional Purposes > ( ) Influence from others > (x) Hobby/pastime Because to create a potentiality is beauty. To use one of my favorite quotes from Ph.D. comics, 'It's got to be beautiful all the way down' > 2nd (choices 4 through 10) What linguistic mechanisms have you > applied when conlanging? > (x) Studies on Sound Change > ( ) Studies on Analogical Change > ( ) Studies on Semantic Change > ( ) Studies on Syntactic Change > ( ) Studies on Borrowing > (x) Studies on the Comparative Method for Language (Re)construction > ( ) Studies on Linguistic Classification this is what happens when you create a Romlang! I sure some of the others apply, but I can't choose them off the top of my head. > 3rd Your conlang is... (choices 11 through 15) > ( ) A priori > (x) A posteriori > ( ) Auxlang > (x) Artlang > ( ) Engelang -- Andrew Smith -- [log in to unmask] -- http://hobbit.griffler.co.nz/homepage.html "If you are gonna rebell you have to wear our uniform."