From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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Date: | Saturday, December 7, 2002, 8:25 |
_GomiLego_, "junk-language"... Imagine a slangy, polyglot _Blade Runner_-esque SVO pidgin/creole with right-branching noun modifiers and left-branching verb modifiers (tense, aspect, mood, etc.). Something like: "Ju tecno GomiLego, lah?" (You know GomiLego, eh?) "Ja!, mi toc GomiLego bon." (Yes!, me speak GomiLego good.) "Teca bilong ju vita, lah?" (Building belong you life, eh?) "Mi tem-numi pod ina cargo-teca sabi ina Burkli." (Me time-money room/container in cargo-building beautiful-old in Berkeley.) {I rent a room in a old, beautiful warehouse in Berkeley.} "Otello iz ludo lol!" (Othello is play/game fun) "Sono iz Rama. Rama iz sono." (Sound is Godhead. Godhead is sound.) "Differena bilong caco e mujzica tem-ina-tem iz ina ju capi tota. (Difference belong noise and music time-in/to-time is in you head all/totally) {Sometimes the difference between noise and music is all in your head} I like the way GomiLego looks and sounds... this current, more viable direction for/of my conlang. Feedback? Advice? Suggestions? Ideas? Hanuman Zhang, 3-Toed-Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist ;) "the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69} €º°`°º€ø,¸¸,ø€º°`°º€ø,¸¸,ø€º°`°º€ø,¸¸,ø€º°`°º€ø,¸¸,ø€º°`°º€€º°`°º€ø,¸~-> "There is no reason for the poet to be limited to words, and in fact the poet is most poetic when inventing languages. Hence the concept of the poet as 'language designer'." --- O. B. Hardison, Jr. "La poésie date d' aujour d'hui." (Poetry dates from today) "La poésie est en jeu." (Poetry is in play) --- Blaise Cendrars
Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |