> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@...> wrote:
> " ... The latest issue of Speculative Grammarian ("SpecGram")
> includes a grammatical sketch of Chickenese. See:
>
http://specgram.com/CLI.3/05.lord.chickenese.html
> Although it is
> described as if it were a natlang, I am almost
> convinced that it is, in fact, a conlang. Personally, I suspect that
> the author may be simply "feeding the chooks" ...
> Opinions?"
> Yahya
> "PS ... While you're there, try out the new "LingDoKu II" - it's
> fun!" YA
>
> While the author is apparently Canadian, Canadian Chickenese is not
> mentioned, (Canadian Chickens say "B'K, eh?" cf. Canadian Geeses'
> "Honk, eh?"), nor other dialects or languages in the Chickenese
> family. For example, the South Georgian Redneck's "y'all come BAAK',
> y'hear!" or the East Tennessee Mountain Roughneck's
> "lukluklukwhutAHdid!".
> As well as other concepts/constructions such as "ku/kuru/KUku" which
> has been recorded in several countries.
>
> The 'sketch' is indeed just a sketch. Probably conducted in only one
> henhouse or barnyard. A case of rushing to publish with incomplete
> research in order to claim primacy in the field.
>
> Que Dios te bendiga de siempre y de todas maneras,
> Paul