Re: Malat (Was: New Language)

Garrett wrote:
> Well, my personal opinion is that there is no real point in making languages close to
> natlangs... what's wrong with just using that natlang? If you're going to create a
> work of art, be original... make up some wierd rules for the language, have fun with
Well, I have found that in deriving languages from natlangs, my job is
much easier and I am free to have fun with the language while already
having a lot of the groundwork laid. I just started a Romance language
called Lainesco, which looks and sounds fairly similar to Spanish and
Portuguese, but is unique. It all started because I have studied
Spanish for a long time and found myself thinking "what if this aspect
of Spanish was like that?" So I implemented those ideas in Lainesco.
The bad part, though, is that I feel somewhat bound by the rules and
vocabulary of Latin and I want to use a fairly consistent system to
derive words from Latin, and they don't all come out like I want them
to. *Shrug* But I like it because it looks recognizably Romance but
it's new and different and MINE! :D