I'm too much of a slacker to have a Grand Project and my answer to the other question is "Yes". I'd have to give you a different answer for every single language and it would include excursus on people I've known who spoke that language and books, songs, and movies I know which make use of it. A powerful motivator that you might not expect was my experience with RPGs: I have no patience with bullshit fantasy languages or mangled grammar, so I was compelled to do my research before naming characters, places, and the like. Factor that it, and you can add Ge'ez, Aramaic, Malagasy, Hausa, Somali, Middle High German, Venetian, Ancient Greek, and many other obscure languages to the list.
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Date: 2008-02-26 05:03 pm (UTC)