Re: Non-humanoid langs

On 4/27/05, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:25:52 +0100,
> Simon Clarkstone <simon.clarkstone@...> wrote:
> > I am fiddling around with the grammar of a lang for genetically
> > engineered, vaguely dragon-like  creatures that I will (for want of a
> > better name) call Kigdatsi.  They do not speak per se, but instead
> > communicate by radio (with "rademes" instead of phonemes).  Their
> > rademes can come in any order, and the language is roughly
> > standardised, so all the fun is in the grammar (which is giving me
> > trouble, but is heading toward a cross between Lojban/Loglan, LISP,
> > Haskell, Relativity, and maths).  They can speak human langs with
> > practice, but are still difficult to understand.
>
> Now that seems like an interestingly bizarre project.  Are you trying
> to beat Ithkuil and Qthyn|gai out of the field?
Not really.  I don't want it to be too cumbersome.  And the writing
system will only have an "alphabet", punctuation,  and about 100
mathemaical / common abbreviation symbols.

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