Re: The pitfall of Chinese/Mandarin

Cheng Zhong Su wrote:

>  --- Adam Walker wrote:
No, he didn't... I did! Please check that you quote properly. It is very
sloppy to attribute something to someone who didn't wrote it, or accuse
someone of writing something, he or she did not write.

> Answer: I have said to learn less. That include
> letters. Suppose we need 2400 'phonetic types' ,
Who are "we"... and what is this "need" stuff. People on AUXLANG say "we
need", while people here on CONLANG say "I would like"....

<SKIP boring calculation of required number of phonetic types>

> > I want my languages to be ambiguous
> > and not too easy to
> > >learn. I want them to have a certain feeling, i.e.
> > my elven languages use
> > >mainly fronted and sharp sounds, and long syllables
> > that end in vowels or
> > >semi-vowels, wile dwarven tongues prefer harsher,
> > more uvular and darker
> > >sounds and shorter syllables that often end in
> > stops.
> Answer: you may just thinking yourself and your native language,
My native language? In my attempt to show you you are arguing your case in
the wrong place, i spoke about elven and dwarven cultures? Do you really
think I have pointy ears or that I am a small guy carrying an axe around,
since you seem to assume that I was walking about my native language? I will
say it one more time: on this list, we create languages not for use in the
real world (not per se, at least), but for the sheer joy of playing with
sounds, words, grammatical rules etc. No one here is trying to create a
language for the simple purpose of perfectly clear and concise
pronounciation. I am just not interested in it, and if I understand
correctly, no one else on this list is (unless they are also on AUXLANG, in
which case it is discussed there).

> but I think more and more people like a clear and easy to learn language,
beside it can
> preserve your culture.
Oh sure there are more people who would like that. You will find them on the
AUXLANG list. But on this list, people come to discuss different stuff.

Maarten (who does have neither pointy ears nor a battle axe and a beard)