<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/12 Arthaey Angosii <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arthaey@gmail.com">arthaey@gmail.com</a>></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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> Main problem is that it's a conworld language, and requires loanwords<br>
> (Spanish and Italian are best from the phonological POV) for a lot or Terran<br>
> stuff.<br>
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</div>Terran flora and fauna, or technology too?<br>
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I find the idea of a conlang with a conworld (or at least conculture)<br>
to actually be *more* interesting than one without.<br>
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</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed. Concultures put everything in context, in a sort of reverse Sapir-Whorf process. I'd also like to learn a naturalistic language, and am consequently not too fond of auxlangs or engelangs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Opinion: a language with a very unusual morphosyntactic alignment, verb system etc. might be challenging enough to sustain interest without the difficulties with romanisation, transliteration etc. that languages with large phonological inventories have. Since we'll mostly be writing, not speaking anyway.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Eugene</div></div>