Re: Looking for a simple conlang to learn
| From: | claudio <claudio.soboll@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 14, 2001, 16:21 |
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hi !
im not an expert of conlanging, but i recommend you :
a) to learn a weird not-accepted conlang first. why ?
because it helps you to find mistakes,lacks,things which are not
optimal solved instead of adopting one conlang as "ideal" or "perfect".
b) looking at and learning several conlangs simultaneuosly, instaed of
concentrating too much on one single conlang.
then you can extract the best ideas of all of those and getting a
grisp whats important in language and whats just redundancy or
detail-love.
the best thing what conlaning can give you, is the stimulation to
create your own language. then you will understand more about language
in general.
one basic idea to start with is probably to consider which meanings
you want to spot in your language:
tenses are macros. cases are macros. affixes are macros.
they all got the function to abbreviate common meanings, they compress
word-length.
you can describe almost everything in every language.
the question is: which expressions do you want to give *shorter* lentgh and
therefore spotting in your lang?
ànd you notice: everyone suggests different priorities, depending on
whats for him important.
also if you want to step out of the crowd you could create a
theme-related conlang:
e.g. one psychologically-orientated, which offers
many short terms for psychological expression which are in other
langugaes just very hard to describe.
for example: "a sympathy for a person which is mixed with abit hate."
..
or
e.g. one spatial-orientated, which offers new terms for spatial
directions, relations, positions, movements, etc. which
could give sportsmen or other practically orientated people a usefull
tool to communicate.
or
e.g.
a language optimized for describing complex "manisfestations" very
easily, so for example "a brown table made of wood , 3 meter long, 10 cm
depth, very heavy," <- to describe with one word only.
such function-optimized languages, are usefull.
regrs,
c.s.
regards,
c.s.
PD> Glosa. Esperanto. Lojban.
PD> You could dig up something on Volapuk or Solresol, but the communities are
PD> small.
PD> --Pat
PD> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Nathan Vanderhoofven wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am looking for a simple conlang to learn and am
>> looking for suggestions. It should have a limited
>> vocabulary, and a provision for logically creating new
>> words. And it should be supported, in that someone is
>> actively using it and promoting it, and has complete
>> documentation on a website.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nathan Vanderhoofven
>>
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