Monthly Archives: February 2011

Elevator speech for why this conlang should exist

Posted on February 27, 2011 by matthewdeanmartin

I’m working on a small language. But the fact that is small isn’t the goal in itself, but a side effect of the fact that no one will try to learn it if it is too large (and it will … Continue reading →

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Bresenish: A Draft Small Lang Word List

Posted on February 26, 2011 by matthewdeanmartin

So I’m working on a new small language, which for the moment is called Bresenish and this is the first iteration of the vocab. Small languages are – small in the sense of a small set of morphemes (root words, … Continue reading →

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When’s the best time to fork?

Posted on February 21, 2011 by matthewdeanmartin

Conlangs are a bit like really small natural languages. The language is optimized to a particular environment, knowing the language is most useful for communicating with a particular set of people. If there is a mismatch, the language might be … Continue reading →

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