> > And as my girlfriend heard of my presence on the list, she immediately
> > wanted to join up as well (she's conlanging for her 'specialarbete' ---
> > roughly equivalent to senior highschool / 2nd school exam paper; oder
auf
> > deutsch : Facharbeit :-)
>
> What's she doing that requires conlanging?
She's doing _conlanging_. The subject of her paper is constructing a
language. As such. :-)
> > Extract from my Coronese conlang... 'greetings' 'gzeut'. Thus, letters
are
> > begun by
> >
> > 'Gzeut os-soldid' -- i.e. greetings -friend
> >
> > and as one of the major feats of the lang is the enclosing
'bracket'-tags,
> > the letter will of course (in good style) be ended by the greeting
inversed:
> > thus
> >
> > 'Os-soldid tuesk', where 'tuesk' is approximate phonological reversion
of
> > 'gzeut'.
> >
> > All other bracket tags are also reversed when ended; thus 'foo - oof',
'dë -
> > ëd' etc.
>
> That's really weird. Is that part of Coronese artificial?
Umm... what do you mean by artificial? It was an effect of generating a
language that would fit the _very_ computer-heavy cyborg society -- thus
introducing concepts from CS quite heavily into the language. The bracket
tags are sort of HTML/XML-tags lexicalized :-)
> Though Daharran is even weirder. It's very alien, but still
> has a very human (Latinate) feel with its cases, paradigms and
> the adjectival and substantive verbs, finite and infinite verb
> forms etc. And a trial but no dual! That's odd! Do you use plural
> for two things?
The dual is included in the singular. And yes, latin is one of the role
models :-)
A friend of mine described it as 'Latin on steroids'.
> daniel
// Mikael Johansson