Re: Messages in conlang (jara: Results of Poll by Email No. 23)

Try it!  I'm always game for a bit of romlang practise!

Wesley Parish

On Saturday 22 February 2003 02:41 am, you wrote:
>  --- Peter Clark skrzypszy:
> > I should
> > point out that a couple of years ago, we had a fellow on the list who
> > posted almost exclusively in his conlang; alas, that made communication
> > rather difficult. Don't do that unless you post a translation in Dutch,
> > please.
>
> Well, doesn't the readability of such a message depend largely on the kind
> of conlang it is written in? AFAICT, Padraic has the habit of writing
> messages (almost) entirely in Kerno. Personally, I take great pleasure
> decyphering them. From time to time, these messages seem to result in small
> Kerno translation games.
> Perhaps I should try once to write a message in Wenedyk. But alas, apart
> from the encoding problems, Wenedyk underwent more radical sound changes
> than Kerno, and I doubt very much if people could understand it.
>
> Jan
>
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