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Re: Biwa (was: YAC: ...) (slightly off-topic)

From:daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...>
Date:Thursday, November 16, 2000, 16:05
Mikael Johansson skrev:

> > What's she doing that requires conlanging?
> She's doing _conlanging_. The subject of her paper is constructing a > language. As such. :-)
Oh!? I wish I'd known about conlanging when I did that. Instead I wound up doing something about the vikings. Boring! ;-)
> > 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 :-)
Yeah. I haven't looked very deep into the culture, just the language. It looked like a complang with all those tags - sgat. Now it makes more sense.
> The dual is included in the singular.
How come? Haven't heard that one before. Why do they differ between one and three and more, but not one and two?
> A friend of mine described it as 'Latin on steroids'.
Hehe. "You get what you read". When I started taking Old Icelandic I immediately introduced umlaut into Rinya. daniel -- <> QHEIL RYNENYA ALANDEA <> daniel.andreasson@telia.com <> <> RINYA LAWEA <> Daniel Andreasson <>