Re:A Man Who Invents Languages for a Living
by 6502nerdface on Sunday September 27, 2015 @12:18PM
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A fun and fascinating resource for anyone interested in artificial languages is Mark Rosenfelder's Language Construction Kit [1]. And if you want to get extremely into it, I highly recommend Paine's Describing Morphosyntax for a detailed tour of diverse grammatical systems from across the world [2].
Re:A Man Who Invents Languages for a Living
by acheron on Sunday September 27, 2015 @12:30PM
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Oh yeah, I remember stumbling across the Language Construction Kit years and years ago. What sticks with me is that all the language stuff on his site was fascinating, and then I looked at the rest of his site and it turned out he was more or less batshit insane. I guess maybe that's not unusual for someone super-dedicated to a hobby.
Re:A Man Who Invents Languages for a Living
by cjhveal on Sunday September 27, 2015 @05:25AM
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David is a great guy. Before Dothraki and his other languages for hire, I exchanged emails with him and he gave me a bunch of advice on my own constructed languages.
Re:A Man Who Invents Languages for a Living
by gliese1337 on Sunday September 27, 2015 @10:32AM
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Dittoed. I still exchange emails with him from time to time, and he still gives good advice. And is just an overall nice guy. If you ever get a chance to meet him in person, he's quite friendly.
[1] http://www.zompist.com/kit.html
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Describing-Morphosyntax-Guide-Field-Li...
The only general-purpose one I'm aware of is this: http://sulmere.tumblr.com/PolyGlot