Chronological Order

Dudicon · Post by **Dudicon** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 12:55 pm

As far as designing proto-langs and descendants, in my experience the best way for me to work is to do the two simultaneously. I may have a clearer idea about a certain aspect of a descendant language, and want to get that down first, but then I'll immediately want to go back to the mother language and find out where that aspect came from. The two languages work off each other until a coherent picture of the whole history can be formed, with the languages on both sides coming out just as you want them to.

(Whew, my first post in almost two weeks! I really fell behind there.)

Nuntar · Post by **Nuntar** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 1:12 pm

That makes sense. Every time now when I get a new idea for my language I have ideas about how it developed, and so I'm slowly building up a picture of what the proto-language was like even though I haven't written any of it down. This is good, because I'd been rather frightened by everyone's insistence that the proto-language should be done first, but... in a way that is what I've been doing.

Nuntar · Post by **Nuntar** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 1:17 pm

My one moment of glory... I had "last post" in all four forums simultaneously, the very first time I posted in the Almea forum as well!

NakedCelt · Post by **NakedCelt** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 12:46 am

zompist wrote:
NakedCelt wrote:Good gods, Verdurian is as old as me. Well, same year, anyway. When did you actually start?
The 1978 date is when Verdurian started... there's no real clear finish date, since I worked on it off and on for years, then redid a bunch of it in the 1990s.

Yes, I figured that, I mean... roughly which month? Like, I'm about five months older than Garfield and eight months older than the discovery that the planet Pluto has a moon, style of thing. (Those were both 1978). I think I'm four or five months younger than Star Wars, but I'd have to look that up.

Post by **zompist** » Sat Nov 22, 2003 1:02 am

NakedCelt wrote:
zompist wrote:
NakedCelt wrote:Good gods, Verdurian is as old as me. Well, same year, anyway. When did you actually start?
The 1978 date is when Verdurian started... there's no real clear finish date, since I worked on it off and on for years, then redid a bunch of it in the 1990s.
Yes, I figured that, I mean... roughly which month? Like, I'm about five months older than Garfield and eight months older than the discovery that the planet Pluto has a moon, style of thing. (Those were both 1978). I think I'm four or five months younger than Star Wars, but I'd have to look that up.

Ah... well, work probably started around October, soon after college started.