Re: CHAT: Nakiltipkaspimak
| From: | czHANg <fengxing-czhang@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 11, 2000, 7:15 |
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 01:18:33 +0200, > Daniel wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> So I thought I'd try creating a language I'm not very used to.
> It's ergative, agglutinating, noun-incorporating and has a very
> small phoneme inventory. <SNIP>This is all very sketchy -- I made it
during a boring seminar today -- but I thought that I'd show it anyway.
<SNIP>
>
> The most impressive thing about it is probably the fact that
> everything on Pimak (i.e. everything in this mail) is written
> down on a single piece of paper measuring 21x14 cm. On one side.
WoWzA!! that beats my constant rough-drafts on every scrap of paper that
comes my way (Don't ya love junk-mail? ::wry grin, very BiG::)
<<M A J O R S N I P P A G E>>
> 8. "kattawiknik pimaktasal"
>
> kat-tawik-nik pimaktasal -0
> 2PL-fight-IMP language_death-ABS
> 'fight language death!'
>
> 9. "katsayuknik pimak"
>
> kat-sayuk -nik pimak -0
> 2PL-create-IMP language-ABS
> 'Create a language!'
<<SNIP>
> So what do you think?
neat-o.... or in Viivo, _uau-moda!_
> "kattawiknik pimaktasal! katsayuknik pimak!"
yepyep
<< One thing foreigners, computers, & poets
have in common is that they make
unexpected linguistic associations. >>
* Jasia Reichardt
- creative cyberneticist *
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