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Most definitely.
Most definitely.
Goddamn I remember when I thought like this. So many big ideas and entire worlds just floating around in my conciseness.
Yes, this is a starting point. Actually, it's a lot of starting points.
Go sentence by sentence. Why is it vague? Sounds to me like this is an old language. An old language, from before the current state of things. It's evolved as it needed, while still being private. Figure out why it started vague, and go from there. Figure out why it's private. You've got a lot to work with here.
Just break it down. Assume you need to back up every statement you make.
Okay. So start smaller. What's the coolest aspect of the language? Or the part that you're most proud of?
If I was approaching something from a language-first style, I'd probably try to figure out what kind of cultural and geographic features would influence the language in it's current form. Just some mind vomit without giving hardly any thought to it:
Just spitballing here. Hope there's a nugget of something in there.
Freaking security audit for a home grown authorization service. No consistency.
The better half downloads audiobooks from YouTube when on wifi, for offline listening.
I like downloading slow TV, so I don't have to worry about streaming it, of I want to sleep to it or something.
Didn't Hammond actually get started with a tiny elephant he used for raising capital in the books?