
Conlangery #121: Trigedasleng
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The Evolution of English
The idea is that the English itself is going to be evolving a little bit faster because it's basically more younger people, more innovations than innovation stick around longer. So there was some phonological evolution, and also some of that phonological evolution triggered morphological evolution. And so then that triggered some other morphological changes, syntax is mostly the same. And also there is just a lot of innovation. I think once people got used to the code, there are certain things that they just liked. And so they came up with new words and stuff. That was my justification for how you could get something that is more or less basically very similar to modern English colloquial English.
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