Re: Conlanging with constraints

--- MorphemeAddict@WMCONNECT.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 2/16/2008 23:54:49 PM Central
> Standard Time,
> ollock@GMAIL.COM writes:
>
>
> > But (at least) one freedom I wouldn't have with a
> human languages: Kesatans
> > can change the color of their skin at will (which
> could be used to
> > compensate for the lack of hand-shape
> distinctions).
>
> Changing skin color as a language medium is explored
> in "The color of
> distance" by Amy Thomson, and also in its sequel
> "Through alien eyes".  The aliens
> communicate by creating graphic images (essentially
> writing) by changing the
> color of their skin.
>
> stevo   </HTML>
>
My first conlang Lauranthea (now abandoned) was spoken
by a race of more-or-less humanoids whose skin changed
colour involuntarily to match their emotional state.
I could have developed this more than I did, but one
of the language features was that they made no
distinction between colour descriptives and emotive
descriptions: you really could feel blue (though IIRC
that was curiosity).

Geoff


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