Zompist Bboard Again

Raising the bar too high for yourself, thinking that one day (asap, preferably) your conlang will have grown into a fully fledged language that could match any natural language (if that was your aim, at least), considering decisions you made earlier on as set in stone, even if they don't make sense ...

I'd say Dutch orthography is 'consistent within its inconsistency': the rules per se might not make a whole lot of sense, but at least it does so in a regular and predictable way. Apart from six year olds and cases of severe dyslexia, I never see any mistakes made against short or long vowels ('wij ...

I (native Dutch speaker) have never seen it. Probably because it would be too similar to the ee sound, like in nee, mee, ree, slee, gedwee etc.

(long time lurker, first time poster) Depends what you care about, I guess, and how deep down the rabbit hole you want to go.[...] In my experience, going deeper down the rabbit hole is just something that happens, if I want it to or not. And the deeper I go, the more difficult it tends to get. Ther...