Please make threads on aspects you'd like to discuss!

Here's a list of things to sort out, which we can do in no particular order or even all at once, but I'd like to have at least one devoted thread for each topic. We have a draft outline for all these things in "The Sketch".

1. Phonology, including static phonology, phonotactics, and realization.
2. Morphology, and its role to play in the language. Should we have an oligosynthetic subsystem for word derivation?
3. Syntax
4. Core vocabulary, since we're going to need more than 8 words.

There's a lot of things in the sketch (or that we'd want to discuss) that don't fit these categories, but those are good to cover as well.

Here's an approach to each section of the language. Note that the phases aren't strictly separate, but serve as a way to describe how far along we are. But at any phase, if there's a compelling reason to change something, we should do it.

1) Sketch. This is the phase we are in right now, where the only official standard is the sketch I wrote. We need to figure out what the language looks like.

2) Pidgin. Once we have a decent consensus on the core language, most of the lexicon will still be unassigned. For this phase, we can use loanwords to fill gaps while trying to work out the approach to various topics.

3) Revision (indefinite). Once the approach to a segment of the language has been sorted out, we go through and try to regularize the vocabulary, using insights that we may not have seen before we started experimenting. If it gets to a point where we have a lot of speakers, compatibility-breaking changes should be weighed against relearning difficulty.

In short, each part of the language will be highly a posteriori at first so that we can focus on the important issues, after which we can build more interesting patterns into the vocabulary, like what I've done with the single-vowel words.

Feel free to comment on meta things or the overall process here.

Let's make Konna!