Re: New member

>Now, if you don't mind, tell us a little about these "terrible
>languages" of yours - I'm sure they'll be well recieved here.
All right, but I've very little time: I have to go to school within 20
minutes, so I'll keep my overview short. If you want to hear more, I'll
type it when I've more time.
My languages are far from finished, and every time I pick it up, I think the
grammar is a complete disaster, so I rewrite my grammer almost every time :-
O My first language (called Bartish, because I am terrible at finding
names) was created during a very, very boring lesson(correct use of the
word?) of French. I tried to make the word 'pokémon' as unrecognisable as I
could make it, so I came out by the word 'lòcendámí' (which I simplified to
locendami afterwards). I made some words for it, and a very primitive
grammar, but I had no time for it. Yet when the exams started, and I wanted
to do something else, instead of studying the whole day, I
started 'playing' with the idea of creating a world where the inhabitants
spoke the language I invented (as you can see, I'm terribly influenced by
Tolkien) I even made a chart of how the languages in that world had
influenced each other, and where they were used. Now the grammar
is still far from complete, but it's quite acceptable. I'm thinking of
implementing some nice things in it. The great problem was (and still is)
that
I can't understand sentences written in the earlier grammars, I didn't
translate them, resulting in sentences like 'In the night I paint dark mine'
and 'That tree, it is a high one, but not higher'. :-O My second language
was even worse, because I wrote it on a paper, which I afterward used as a
testpaper for my homework of mathematics. Luckily the only real words I made
were 'to die' and 'to live' :-)
The third was an experiment to implement a system used in my local dialect
(of course greatly simplified, because it's very strange to hear an
inflected verb, with the subject before AND after the verb). However, I
think it is very unlogical to have a language that uses "it et n'nude ain
intik" to say something like 'there is no food'. Plus it's very strange to
pronounce. Maybe, when those languages are more developped, you'll hear
more about them, or when you are just curious about my wordlist of only
about 200 words.
(Please don't mind my spelling and/or grammatical mistakes, In real life I
speak Dutch)

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