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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Glenn Kempf</b>
on <!--date-->00:22 6/19/02
<p>In reply to: <a href="424.html">Mandin Kálru</a> posted by Green Dragon</b> on 17:06 5/25/02
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Dear Dragon,
<p>A few long-overdue comments on your conlang, Mandin Kálru:
<p>If you want some ideas for how to present a language, there are some
valuable examples right from this site--more elaborate descriptions from
Mark's Virtual Verduria and Pablo Flores' parallel Earth (accessible via
the Language Construction Kit), more compact ones from Jonathan's Tigere
and Julius' Kanaran pages (accessible via this bulletin board).
<p>I took a look at your Mandin Kálru page; I can see that you set
the information up in table form (a good idea, by the way), but it comes
out all crunched together. This is something you'd probably want to
correct, although I'm not sure how this can be done. Once you have more
vocabulary, giving examples to illustrate the various forms would also
help a lot.
<p>One of the neat things about any language (con or non-con--would that be
"pro"?) is the existence of patterns, and a history. I noticed that in
Mandin Kálru, the "simple" sentence order is SOV, while the
"polite form" is VOS (thus creating a huge difference between the two
forms). One possible explanation is that the VOS order is the older one,
and people use the more archaic form of the language in order to be
formal (as the language of the King James Bible has a formal ring to
modern ears, for example). The SOV structure would be more modern,
possible influenced by another language.
<p>On the other hand, maybe the VOS form was introduced by the new upper
class after a conquest, on the basis of the conqueror's language...Just a
few thoughts... (I'm a former history major, which may be part of the
reason I tend to come up with these things :-) ; they may not have
anything to do with your own ideas.)
<p>No matter what, don't criticize yourself or sell yourself short; if you
like the idea of conlanging, keep at it! Good luck!
<p>Nende quralain,
<br>Glenn
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