Would you like to participate in an amateur collaborative conlang mini-project?
The WIP name is Collabolang and it includes one specific rule of thumb that will surely make the entire experience pure chaos - what is written in the doc cannot be erased/edited afterwards, only added on.
The rules are simple:
Participants rule out by the principle of who shouted first who will do what, basically calling dibs on parts of the authorship of the lang.
Participants can only work on one part of the lang at a time, calling dibs on other parts while not finished on your own one is not allowed.
Once a part of the lang is written and finished, it cannot be erased or edited. Though, there can be added new rules and exceptions to the ones that already exist, probably making the lang look more naturalistic.
As well, there are just plain rules of etiquette:
Join the project only if you have experience in making conlangs at least to some extent.
No messing with others' work - not when they're online, not when they are offline. That's rude.
No trolling, aka making jokes at others' expense. As in, do not make rules in grammar that will limit other participants' creativity, and surely do try to slide and do something "not against the rules" that will be annoying to everyone.
Stay in line with other participants. If someone said that a part of speech is marked in a specific way, you will have to abide this rule. Stay in bound of the set up phonotactics, phonetics and spelling, as well.
If you don't want to participate, please still share the post so it can reach a broader auditory. Redirect this post to friends who you know are into linguistics, if you want, and stay tuned if you're interested to see what turns out of this!
There might be a Discord server created for the cause so participants could join and talk and plan. As well, whoever calls dibs on the name of the conlang first will have to name it!
