Heh. I do that with constructed cultures. They will have ALL THE GENDER ROLES!
And yeah, I do it with the conlangs, too. There are so many entertainingly different constructions to choose from!
The funny thing is, right now I'm working on a language that has a few things in common with English--and it winds up seeming totally counter-intuitive to me to put it in a conlang. Pre-nominal modifiers (including modifying nouns)? Relative clauses marked by relative pronouns? Tense/lax vowel distinctions? A copula? IN THE SAME LANGUAGE? That's ridiculous. No language does ... oh. Right.
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Date: 2012-07-02 07:04 pm (UTC)And yeah, I do it with the conlangs, too. There are so many entertainingly different constructions to choose from!
The funny thing is, right now I'm working on a language that has a few things in common with English--and it winds up seeming totally counter-intuitive to me to put it in a conlang. Pre-nominal modifiers (including modifying nouns)? Relative clauses marked by relative pronouns? Tense/lax vowel distinctions? A copula? IN THE SAME LANGUAGE? That's ridiculous. No language does ... oh. Right.