Re: small "ruff" sampling of GomiLego

In a message dated 12/09/2002 12.23.18 AM, ijzeren_jan@YAHOO.CO.UK quotes me
& writes:

>> _GomiLego_, "junk-language"...
>
>Cool language, Hanuman! I must admit that the name "junk-language" seems
>to cover the load fairly well :)
    Thanx, Jan. I have been reading up more on pidgins and creoles lately and
"Gomilego" - being a pidgin-turned-creole - seems more of a pidgin-like
name... sort of like how many uninformed people refer to pidgins and creoles
as "broken language" (and worse things like "baby talk" and "Tarzan speech.")

>>     "Ju tecno GomiLego, lah?"  (You know GomiLego, eh?)
>
>What's the etymology of "lah"?
    A question particle from Singlish :) [Singaporean English].

>>     "Otello iz ludo lol!" (Othello is play/game fun)
>
>LOL! Directly borrowed from Dutch, I presume?
    Yepyep ;) as well as common email/internet usage... it's a nice
coincidence or synchronicity much like _lego_ being both Greek-ish for
"language" and the brand-name of a famous modular construction toy.

>>     I like the way GomiLego looks and sounds... this current, more viable
>> direction for/of my conlang.
>
>Does GomiLego actually replace CreoLego? Because CreoLego still was some
>sort of Romlang, but what you show here leans so heavily on English, that the
>Romance component seems to have moved to the far background.
    Gomilego is more of a polyglot-lexifier "mutant English" creole ... a
neccessarily simplified outgrowth of Creolego, shift in paradigms ;) not a
"replacement". The Romance language component(s) is/are in many of the words
still, but much less so in the syntax (which I am thinking of modeling after
Bislama and some other creoles).

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with fur." ~Doug Larson~


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