Re: Sleeping dragons and a new lang!

In a message dated 2002.03.06 06.32.23 AM, litrex1@YAHOO.COM writes:

>Also, I have the beginnings of a new conlang!  I call
>it Kropja, which is short for -Cro-atian, -P-olish,
>and -Y-iddish, the "flavors", the inspirations, of the
>lang.
    ::cheeky grin:: a Klezmer ConLang!!!

>All I know is that it will inflect fairly
>heavily and that I have the phonology and orthography
>down.  BTW a word can begin with "zz"!
    ::ears prick up at that::  That fact alone makes this seem intriguin'!
I used to hate "odd" consonant clusters, but I have begun to like certain
ones due to this list, hehe... Ferinstance, I seem to have a lotta
fricative/sibilant consonant clusters cropping up in Lego (my ConArtAuxLang
;) (And, hehe, you thought English was a "hissing tongue"...eh?)

>  It's the sound
>/Z/--my "z" acts like the Polish z and the English h
>in digraphs.  I won't start serious work on this,
>though, until I get Kayasanoda on the web and I can
>install the word generator I downloaded onto someone's
>computer.

~§~
_LILA_ <from Sanskrit> = "Divine Play"  - the 'joyous exercise of spontaneity
involved in the art of creation' (Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan)
...the play of creation, destruction, and re-creation, the folding and
unfolding of the cosmos...both the delight and enjoyment of this moment, and
the play of [the] God[head] ("the universe is what happens when God wants to
play").

_Spielraum_ <from German> = free scope to experiment with things & ideas; to
toy with ideas; room to play in

    WHIM = 1a. a sudden fancy; a caprice. b. capriciousness. 2. a kind of
windlass for raising ore or water from a mine. [17th century: origin unknown]
    WHIMSY (plural forms: WHIMSIES, WHIMSEYS) = 1. a whim; a capricious
notion or fancy. 2. capricious or quaint humour. [related to WHIM-WHAM
]/Italian _capriccio_, French _boutade_
    WHIM-WHAM = a toy or plaything

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