Re: Help desiging a minimal conlang?

* Paul.Bennett@xncorp.com (Paul.Bennett@xncorp.com) [991129 11:25]:
> Sally>>>>>>
> Paul Bennett wrote:
> >
> > Years (literally) ago, there was a group effort towards making a 20-word
> > isolating language for Birds.
>
> Really?  I thought that was only months ago!  And I thought I was the
> one to suggest it!  Not the 20 word isolating language, but that it was for
> birds! I even gave a teeny lexicon which a few listers revised.  Do you mean
> years in bird terms?  Or was there a bird language essayed, human years ago,
> that I unwittingly replicated?  <G>
> <<<<<<
>
> Come to think of it, it was right at the very start of my subscription to the
> list.  By a relatively simple deductive process, this has to be after our
> internal email system became an external email system, which happened at some
> point after January 1998.  I'd say that means it was nearer one year ago.
>
> Tal?  How big is the larkhive these days?  Does it go that far back?  I think
> it'd be usefull for me to find this original thread and apply some of the
> wisdom to this project.
Coverage is currently July 1998 to June 1999. I've hit another snag in
the mailbox-converter... how hard can it be to honor rfc822? *grumble*

Anyway, I told you not to trust eventual bookmarks (didn't I?), as I
have prepared the thingy to handle more than one list now, as well as
working on header-search and date-search (not in the official version).

BTW: does anyone have archives of auxlang or similar lists? I need the
raw text-versions of about 500 messages or so, *including the headers*!

Hmm... There's some stuff from June this year, subjects "Tiny lexicon
language", "Twenty-word language challenge", "A tiny attempt at
conlanging" and "20-word language attempt", see:

http://rhiann.nvg.ntnu.no:8080/larkhive/conlang/listsearch?
query=tiny%20lexicon%20language

Guess I'll have to convert July too to see if the thread continues :)

Hmmm... I have checked the raw archives now, covering late 1997-today:
no bird language or twenty-word language in '98.

Oh and a final btw, anyone wanna make a logo for larkhive?

tal.