Re: OT: Quick Intro

On Thursday 20 February 2003 6:33 pm, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> John Dollan wrote:
> >Hello...
> >
> >I was referred to this list from another one, and am glad to join.
>
> Welcome to the list! I hope you were warned that CONLANG is addictive?
>
> >  My name
> >is John, and I am currently working on various writing projects, all of
> >which have the potential for several language creations.  I am mainly
> >interested in getting the "basics" down just enough so as to be able to
> >name
> >various geographical features, and perhaps even have a few "native
> >phrases".
> >Primarily for use in my Leaves of Autumn setting, I plan to have three
> >major
> >race languages, and several different Human languages, all of which are
> >spread out over several millennia.
>
> Race languages? Does that means you're planning to have one Elvish
> language, one Trollish one, one
> Little-bluey-grey-cynoids-with-an-obsession-for-malt-whiskey one (or
> whatever races you're including)?
>
> Nothing "wrong" about that, of course, but, despite being common in RPG
> worlds etc, a such situation is slightly odd; why are there multiple human
> languages, but only one cynoid one? Explanations can, of course, be found -
> the cynoids may be confined to a smaller geographical area than the humans,
> say - but forgoing to make _the_ cynoid language in favour of making _a_
> cynoid language frees one from having to provided them.
Yes, Tolkien did well at that, by having both Quenya and Sindarin.