Re: REQUEST: Engelang?
From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, May 31, 2005, 15:58 |
Hi!
John Quijada writes:
> David J. Peterson wrote:
> >Can someone please give me an example of an engelang that
> >isn't an auxlang or a loglang?
> ----------------------------------------
> Perhaps my conlang Ithkuil meets your criteria. It is a philosophical
> language that is certainly an "engelang" and, while "logical" in the
> application of its principles, it is certainly not a "loglang" in the
> narrow sense of being based on symbolic logic (i.e., the predicate
> calculus). Henrik Theiling's Qthyn|gai language might also suffice.
Now that you name it -- I think I agree. :-)
I usually don't try to classify and just say it's a 'personal
language', but it's definitely engineered in a non-natural way, while
not being a loglang and definitely no auxlang.
Then by the same reasoning, my Tyl Sjok belongs to that category, I
think.
**Henrik
PS: Qthyn|gai: http://www.theiling.de/conlang/s7/
Tyl Sjok: http://www.theiling.de/conlang/s2/