The Next Relay 2015

[communistplot]

At least for Team 1 I'd rather if there were input from the entire team when creating the proto-language. There are things I can't do well (syntax for instance).

Anyway I'll take a spot to the east of the Team 1 urheimat along the bay leading into the north-central isthmus.

[Nannalu]

A suggestion from someone who's not actively involved: get the most experienced member of the team to do the proto-language. Someone with some experience will come up with a reasonable sketch that is plausible and covers the bases (and hopefully will have enough delicious possibilities for derivation: kinda-sorta unstable phonologies and morphologies just begging for simplification are good here), while someone without the appropriate experience will make something difficult to derive from. Akana is both a good and a bad model here: Ndak Ta had quirks, irregularities and enough nous to not shit on universals, while Adata was patchy and fairly amateurish a language, with glaring internal inconsistencies.

Very true that is. I'm waiting word on Vidurnaktis if he is doing the protolang for his team. I'm not yet sure who is the protolanger for T2, I may have to do it.

[communistplot]

A suggestion from someone who's not actively involved: get the most experienced member of the team to do the proto-language. Someone with some experience will come up with a reasonable sketch that is plausible and covers the bases (and hopefully will have enough delicious possibilities for derivation: kinda-sorta unstable phonologies and morphologies just begging for simplification are good here), while someone without the appropriate experience will make something difficult to derive from. Akana is both a good and a bad model here: Ndak Ta had quirks, irregularities and enough nous to not shit on universals, while Adata was patchy and fairly amateurish a language, with glaring internal inconsistencies.

Very true that is. I'm waiting word on Vidurnaktis if he is doing the protolang for his team. I'm not yet sure who is the protolanger for T2, I may have to do it.

Whoops, looks like we just missed each other. Yeah I'll be designing the rough or at least part of it.

[Nannalu]

At least for Team 1 I'd rather if there were input from the entire team when creating the proto-language. There are things I can't do well (syntax for instance).

Anyway I'll take a spot to the east of the Team 1 urheimat along the bay leading into the north-central isthmus.

Don't forget it's only a sketch and you only need to conjure what is needed for your team mates!

[communistplot]

At least for Team 1 I'd rather if there were input from the entire team when creating the proto-language. There are things I can't do well (syntax for instance).

Anyway I'll take a spot to the east of the Team 1 urheimat along the bay leading into the north-central isthmus.

Don't forget it's only a sketch and you only need to conjure what is needed for your team mates!

Oh definitely, but working on the proto-lang collaboratively is fun.

Anyway, I meant the smaller bay to the north but I think I've taken a liking to this spot so it's all good.

[Nannalu]

Oh definitely, but working on the proto-lang collaboratively is fun.

Anyway, I meant the smaller bay to the north but I think I've taken a liking to this spot so it's all good.

Do whatever will suit your team

Oh sorry! I assumed you mean't that bay.

[communistplot]

Do whatever will suit your team

Oh sorry! I assumed you mean't that bay.

No worries I'm fine with this location.

[Nannalu]

Meant* (God sake, me).

I've started to sketch out proto-T2 phonology.

[Pogostick Man]

May I go to the southwest by that little lake?

[Neon Fox]

I'll take that northwestern peninsula, then, which should spread out T1 pretty nicely.

[Nannalu]

[2+3 clusivity]

I wasn't too helpful in last years, but if you'll take me on I'll redeem myself now that I have more time.

Whatever team; throw me to the wind migration-wise -- maybe an outlying coastal or mountainous area.

[Yrusia]

I'll take where the land curves north to the east of the urheimat. Also, I'm a guy.

[Nannalu]

@2+3, You'll be Team 2
@Yrusia, sorry 'bout the pronouns!

We're just waiting on Bristel's migrations now.

[gestaltist]

NW or NE? That small archipelago?

Here:

That's a very big area. I'll place you on the coast.

Can you put me on the islands closer to Yrusia instead? Thanks.

[Nannalu]

How is Team 1's proto-lang coming along? So far, for my team, I've done the phonology and part of the nominal morphology.
Would end of February be a good deadline?

And I also cleaned up the migration map:

[2+3 clusivity]

Speed-reading through, a few questions I may have missed the answers to:
(1) is anyone assigned to do T-2's proto-lang or was T-2 collaborative;
(2) do we have a board, and, if not, has anyone undertaken the search;
(3) Are we dealing with humans (c.f. Akana irc), humanoids (c.f. the Zebia project), something else;
(4) climate!?

[ObsequiousNewt]

Speed-reading through, a few questions I may have missed the answers to:
(1) is anyone assigned to do T-2's proto-lang or was T-2 collaborative;

I thought Nannalu was going to. Although he didn't say that explicitly.

(2) do we have a board, and, if not, has anyone undertaken the search;

Pole, could we reuse last year's?

[Pole, the]

I don't know. I am no admin on any of the fora.

If you mean the relay 14's forum, Serafín was the admin.

[ObsequiousNewt]

Ah, my mistake. Querubín?

[2+3 clusivity]

A suggestion from someone who's not actively involved: get the most experienced member of the team to do the proto-language. Someone with some experience will come up with a reasonable sketch that is plausible and covers the bases (and hopefully will have enough delicious possibilities for derivation: kinda-sorta unstable phonologies and morphologies just begging for simplification are good here), while someone without the appropriate experience will make something difficult to derive from. Akana is both a good and a bad model here: Ndak Ta had quirks, irregularities and enough nous to not shit on universals, while Adata was patchy and fairly amateurish a language, with glaring internal inconsistencies.

Very true that is. I'm waiting word on Vidurnaktis if he is doing the protolang for his team. I'm not yet sure who is the protolanger for T2, I may have to do it.

I can hammer one out. If you want.

[communistplot]

How is Team 1's proto-lang coming along? So far, for my team, I've done the phonology and part of the nominal morphology.
Would end of February be a good deadline?

I hammered out a phonological sketch a few nights ago, just filling it out/touching it up now. We still need a fora tho which would facilitate our teams' organisation. Some neutral, but interested, party could create a forum here.

[Nannalu]

A suggestion from someone who's not actively involved: get the most experienced member of the team to do the proto-language. Someone with some experience will come up with a reasonable sketch that is plausible and covers the bases (and hopefully will have enough delicious possibilities for derivation: kinda-sorta unstable phonologies and morphologies just begging for simplification are good here), while someone without the appropriate experience will make something difficult to derive from. Akana is both a good and a bad model here: Ndak Ta had quirks, irregularities and enough nous to not shit on universals, while Adata was patchy and fairly amateurish a language, with glaring internal inconsistencies.

Very true that is. I'm waiting word on Vidurnaktis if he is doing the protolang for his team. I'm not yet sure who is the protolanger for T2, I may have to do it.

I can hammer one out. If you want.

I started doing it but it deleted itself, therefore.. If you want

[2+3 clusivity]

Gotta love those disappearing "document1"s. Okay, I'll start and post info as soon as we have a forum.

[Bristel]

Yes, I'm here. I'll take the spot on the south-west edge of the big lake.