Re: Fave Conlangs WAS: Silindion

At 07:26 PM 3/22/2002 +0000, you wrote:

>There's some, e.g. the four forms & the six cases.  I rate Kinya highly
>also; I like its phonetics, and the fact that, unusually for conlangs, it
>considers metrics and poetic forms.
    Ah, that's true! I had forgotten the forms and cases. I too really,
REALLY like that he is incorporating/has incorporated poetric forms and
metrics. I am doing the same with Taalennin, and already have some idea of
standard epic poetry forms (3 line stanzas of either 6 syllables or 6 feet
each - I'll have to wait til I start writing some epic poetry to decide
whether 6 syllables is enough space).

   Speaking of which, does anyone understand what caesura and hemistychs
are, and can you explain it to me? I think they'll be very important in the
epic metrics.

>Wot no Tolkien-langs?
>
>They appeared in neither the 'interesting list snipped', nor above.
>Personally, Quenya must come high (if not at the top) of my list.
    It used to be in the top 5, along with Sindarin. But as Andreas' recent
mention of the "Is Quenya fictional?" issue on elfling attests, it has
gotten extremely obtuse and weird. I got sick of the infighting, the
pointless arguments (how many angels _can_ dance on the head of a pin?) ,
and the zillion newbies brought to the list by the movie, asking "How do I
say X in Elfish", with X being their name, the name of their role-playing
character, their dog, etc. All of that, together with my worries about the
future release of vocabulary, made it less appealing. Not to say i don't
like it! There are still elements of Quenya in Taalennin (the singular
article 'i' (also borrowed, sort of, from Old Irish), the imperfect tense
in -ne, 'ser' flow cognate with Q. sir, and so on).

   Aidan

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