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

En réponse à "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>:

>
> LOL!! (Recalls an argument somebody made earlier, that people have
> very
> little motivation to learn a language that sounds silly... I mean,
> si-*li*... nothing like being asked to learn a language in which your
> name
> means "absurd"!)
>
The Dadaists would have *loved* it! ;)

>
> ROFL!!! Well, *I'm* going to start using it, whether or not it catches
> on.
Me too! Especially since, when doing a little search in the archives at Brown,
I found out that:

- In 98 a similar flamewar happened about a Euroclone called *Li* Lingue
Moderne, proposed by a guy who had admitted finding conlanging stupid and yet
carrying on advocating the auxlang he didn't even create himself on the list,
- The last auxlanger that had pestered the list before Andrew appeared was the
multiple-named Su Cheng Zhong, Su Lu and Su *Li* (now *that* was a pest! ;))) ).

It seems the syllable "li" is a strange attractor of auxlanging ;))) .

> Is it a coincidence that one of our conlang catch phrases happen to be
> "magge*li*ty"? :-P
>
LOL!

> Hmm, according to the Ygyde noun/prefix tables, "maggelity" (or more
> precisely, 'magelity') appears to mean "detector environment absurd
> country". I'm not sure what that may mean; maybe Christophe can
> enlighten
> us.  Or maybe it's all just li. :-P
>
Maybe speaking Maggel is a way to detect in your environment entry points to
Wonderland ;))))))))) ("absurd country" fitting quite well as a name for that
country ;) ).

Christophe.

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