Mikael Johansson wrote:
As I said in another mail, I've been computerless for a week.
Sorry about the late replies.
> 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?
> > Well, the leader of the Horisont-project is a really smart guy,
> > so when I explain linguistic stuff to him he mostly gets it.
> >
> > I suppose I _could_ try and make Swahili go through some
> > _major_ sound changes, but still...
> Sorta like Coronese, ey?
Yeah. Really good work there. I got inspired by John Cowan's
posting on Swahilicelandic (or swahisländska in Swedish :-).
You can see the result in another mail.
> <girlfriend visionary>
> I get this picture of the troubled professional trying to make reality
and
> the visions of the Artist/SF-series-producer/landscape-architect come
into
> even close proximity with each other... *LOL*
> </girlfriend visionary>
Me and my class (of 7 people) had dinner with my supervisor,
an old teacher of mine and our prof. We each had to tell how
we got interested in linguistics. I was very vague about the
conlanging part. Best not to tell them if I ever want to be
a PhD student. They might think I like to make up languages
to fit my theses. :-P
> Extract from my Coronese conlang... 'greetings' > 'gzeut'. Thus, letters
are
> begun by
>
> 'Gzeut os-soldid' -- i.e. greetings <PLURAL>-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?
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?
daniel
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