Re: Conlangs as secret communication styles

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Alex Fink <000024@...> wrote:
> Sai's and my gripping language (another phonology post upcoming soon) has
> secrecy as one of its design goals, but the secrecy is meant to be an aspect
> of the medium, steganographic-style: if others present don't know to pay
> attention to the speakers' clasped hands the hope is that they'll not
> realise anything is going on.
... and even if they did do so, they probably would not be able to see
enough of it to be able to translate, because most of the motions are
fairly subtle (one doesn't need much motion to cause pressure
sensation).

> Whether we should make the description itself secret is still being
> discussed.  We see no harm in describing the phonology here, for instance;
> and I would even be willing to publish the lexicon, but Sai might not want
> to do that?
I feel like the mapping of lexicon to phonolgical forms ought to be
secret, but have no problem sharing any of the rest.

- Sai