On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:23:40AM -0700, dirk elzinga wrote:
> Hey.
>
> A while back (1 1/2 - 2 years), we were playing around with the
> Conlanger Code similar to the Geek Code. I know taliesin put it
Hey!! I love that idea!
> up on his website, and I thought was kind of fun; I also
What's the URL?
> remember Boudewijn (and others) proposing a language code as
> well. The idea was to provide a quick snapshot of the
> typological features of the language in question. I played
> around with a version of the Language Code as well; I might
> still have the notes somewhere.
Cool, I've love to know more about this :-)
> I liked the idea because it treated conlangs like "real"
> languages by using conventional typological properties found in
> languages around the world and applying the same categories to
> conlangs. If we wanted to do something like this again, it would
> be just a matter of choosing an interesting or significant
> subset of typological features and coding them in a sensible
> way.
I love this idea. Especially given the unusualness of my conlang, I'd love
to see how it turns out in such a classification :-)
T
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