Re: Musical conlangs (was: Poetique)

En réponse à Costentin Cornomorus :


>Quite. And if we were as familiar with SOlresol -
>or any other conlang - we would be able to do the
>same thing.
Not in my opinion. SolReSol is not readily parsable even for someone 
familiar with the language if you don't pause after each word. And the 
philosophical bias in the lexicon construction makes it even more difficult.


>And context is helpful in sorting out which
>interpretation to follow.
But in English this is required so rarely that you usually don't have to 
refer to context at all for the parsing itself. Imagine that each and every 
sentence you were ever listening to would pose a "hithere" problem 
(multiplied three or four times, since it would happen all along the 
sentence, not just at one single place). How would you even *know* what the 
context is?


>Like I say, I don't know that much about
>Solresol. If so many possibilities exist, that
>sounds like a design flaw.
Well, I do think that SolReSol, while a good idea in theory, was poorly 
executed.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang. 

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