Re: li! (Was: Re: Naming mp3 players and Yakuza was Re: Comparison of philosophical languages)

En réponse à Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:

>
> Surely it's "adjective-method-same-as-self"? ;-)
>
LOL. Indeed. I guess it would also mean "correct" ;))))

>
> (Not an auxlanger, but I will admit to my first ever conlang, Lingu
> Scribem, being a Euroclone- for private use only!)
>
My first serious conlang was *supposed* to be an auxlang. Its main concept was
revolutionary: since people have languages with so many different sounds, the
only way to make sure the language could be spoken by everyone was to reduce
its phonology dramatically. I had ended up (without any method of any kind)
with four consonants: /f/ /m/ /s/ /k/ (I guess I had something against stops,
but I did have an idea of putting the sounds as far as possible from each
other :)) ) and four vowels: /a/ /i/ /o/ /u/ (why not three? I didn't know any
Arabic then ;)) ). The phonotactics were nonexistent (meaning: any syllable I
could pronounce was OK :)) ), the grammar naive (I mean, masculine and feminine
gender, three cases, prepositions *and* postpositions agreeing in gender and
number with the nouns (!), verbs with a remotely English-like grammar, etc...)
and the whole concept just didn't appeal to me that much. I must still have my
notes somewhere, buried deeply :)) . If anyone's interested to see the worst
Auxlang ever... ;))))

And I had called the language Amia, which (through a non-productive way)
meant "Language of Peace". Forgive me, for I didn't know what I was
doing ;)))) .

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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