Re: SURVEY : YOUR FIRST CONWORK

Mathias M. Lassailly wrote:

>I read last Matt Pearson's post replying to Pablo's post 'Another >Survey'
(which by the way I misread and to which I replied beside the >point.) I
find his few lines of first conlanging memories very >interesting. Forgive
me my indiscretion, but I would really like to >know whether the young
conlangers you all were were more absorbed in >naming than in making
sentences. I would also like to know whether >the meaning or the images
that were prompted to you by the words you >made up influenced the
syntactic use of these words. To make it >clearer : I remember that for the
many first months I had no concern >about conlang syntax because sentences
would just come up to my mind >without having designed their structure
first.
[snip]

When a was a child I began reading SF, lots of it, and then I began to
write some too. Sometimes I needed to name a country, or an important
character, or a new species of bird or tree, and it seemed natural
for me to invent some names. I had no idea there was such thing as
conlanging.

Most times the names were just a lot of letters combined in strange
ways in order to form alien-like words. I never translated sentences
at this stage, but I did name a lot of places and people -- and some
names were good ones.

Then I wrote a short fantasy humorous story about an island, Panta,
and I wanted to add some character to it so I translated a couple of
verses of songs. I think that's when my conlanger vein surfaced. Soon
I thought I needed a grammar for that. Then I needed more words. Then
I needed a fixed phonology and a standard spelling to make things
"serious". I finally wrote three stories, and the titles for them
were in Pantato (the name of the language itself was meant to be humorous
too).

Pantato is now in a limbo, but I want to take it back and probably
I will... if time permits.


A sample of this and you'll tell me if it's not adorable :)

Telre gebaru / gebaru Telre  "Telre the queen, queen Telre"
Neshino / Neshino            "Majesty, Majesty"
Aytsakempa^ / Chimahimpa^    "The awaited, the feared"
Tupu re / saliu re           "like the thunder, like the rain"
Telre Gepo Slebe Shoto       "Telre, First to Carry that Name"


--Pablo Flores

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