[conlang_learners] Welcome, and some proposals for what conlang to learn

[Philip Newton]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 13:19, Jim Henry<jimhenry1973 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/6/15 Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>:
>
>> I wonder what people think about Mark Rosenfelder's Verdurian.
>>
>> Though it's probably too SAE-like for many.
>
> It certainly looks well enough developed to be learnable and usable.

*nods* That was my impression, too.

> Its morphology does look pretty SAE, though -- verbs inflecting for
> person and number of subject (but not object), tense, mood; nouns with
> masculine/feminine genders and apparently the same four basic cases
> that survive in German or Greek; etc...

*nods*

> How many people can read and write, or speak, Verdurian?

I've really no idea. I used to be haltingly fluent in reading and
writing, but I haven't looked at it for years, so I don't really know
what the community is like. I expect the ZBB would be a better place
to ask.

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>