Re: OT: babel and english
| From: | Matthew Kehrt <matrix14@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 20, 2001, 14:57 |
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Hmmm...
I've spoken one of these. However, it was 'eish.' /iS/, I think. It's
surprisingly easy to communicate when speaking face to face, but,
online, forget it.
On this subject, how many conlangs are there that focus on gesticulation
and intonation more than, say, English does? Any consignlangs?
-M
bjm10@CORNELL.EDU wrote:
>
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Samuel Rivier wrote:
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> > It would be cool if we could have a very very very
> > easy auxlang here- it would attract a very diverse
> > crowd
>
> I nominate "Uk". Uk is, without a doubt, the world's simplist auxlang.
> It contains two, and only two, phonemes. /@/ and /k/, which are only
> permitted to form the word /@k/. All words are uk. All ideas are uk.
> Indeed, all auxlang is uk. Uk has the additional feature of distilling
> the purest essence of the IAL, that being stupidity, into its most
> concentrated form.
>
> As the Manifesto of Uk (or to give it it's uk title: uk) says:
>
> uk
> uk uk
> uk uk uk uk uk uk
> uk
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