Re: OZBOLAMDE (or How to Invent a Conlang in 5 Minutes)

--- Javier BF <uaxuctum@...> wrote:
> (Inspired by a post in alt.lang.artificial)
>
> OZBOLAMDE
So it occured to me that it would be interesting to
take some rather long piece of literature, longer at
least than just a short story, and perhaps even a
whole novel, and to apply mutations to the English of
the story as the story progressed.  By the end of the
story or novel the reader would be reading and
understanding a totally different language assimilated
in small doses as each new mutation was introduced.

The trick would be to make each mutation small enough
that the reader could easily get accustomed to it by
reading three or four paragraphs with that mutation
added.  But the cumulative effect of all the mutations
would be to change English into a language with a
completely different system of verb conjugation, and
maybe even into a heavily inflected language with
little resemblence to English.

Hmmm.  I think I'm going to give that a try.  Stay
tuned for progress reports :)

--gary