Re: LUNATIC SURVEY: 2005

SOME MINOR CORRECTIONS (Sorry, Sally!)

On Friday 25 February 2005 22:46 +0100, Carsten Becker
wrote:

 > A)
 >
 >  > 7. What is your nationality?  Where do you live now?
 >
 > German; 50km east of Kassel

Northern Hesse, 50km WEST of Kassel (I always mix them up)

 >  > *20. Do you consider it nerdy to be doing this? This
 >  > is a term that gets tossed around a lot. Or actually
 >  > sophisticated? Do you need to get a life, or is this
 >  > your life? What is a life?
 >
 > It's a little nerdy because Linguistics is not so widely
 > spread, respectively people often don't know anything
 > about it. When you're doing something others don't do
 > that involves much theory, you're automatically said to
 > be a nerd I guess. Yet there are few people in my
 > environment that absolutely do not like me.
 > As for my life, I am quite introverted, not liking very
 > much to go out for drinking or partying at the weekend --
 > compared to others, I think my life is a bit boring.
 > However, I feel awkward among many people. My
 > psychartrist says it couldn't be wrong to get to know
 > better some people and go out more often.

But it's not that I wouldn't go to "Kursfeten" (course
parties). Small, overviewable amounts of people are OK.

 > B)

 >  > 5. Briefly describe the outlines of your invented
 >  > language (syntactical structure--VO, OV, etc.; class
 >  > or type--analytic, synthetic, agglutinating,
 >  > incorporative, accusative, ergative, active, trigger,
 >  > other, combinations, etc.), noting what you have done
 >  > with it that is innovative in your opinion.
 >
 > Since Ayeri is currently my main conlang, I'm only
 > describing this one:
 >
 > Ayeri is mostly synthetic, and it's a trigger language.
 > There is nothing very innovative IMO. If it weren't an
 > anadewism, I'd say it's interesting that there are only a
 > few "true" adpositions (location itself, motion, motion
 > to, motion from) while all the specifications are done
 > using nouns. Adjective comparison is only done using
 > verbs.

It's also heavily agglutinating, that's also why words can
get quite long.

 >  > 6. Can conlanging be sexy? sensual? obsessing? how
 >  > does it heal or harm you?
 >
 > It doesn't harm me. And yes, langs can be sexy and
 > obsessing.

But as has been mentioned, I also don't get an errection
when making up grammar ;-) Making up grammar is fun,
brainwise. What I meant is that the *sound* of languages
can be quite appealing sometimes, but not sexuality-wise,
only pleasing one's sense of aesthetics ;-)

 > D)

 >  > 6. What books have you consulted? On your own, or
 >  > because you heard of them on the list?
 >
 > "Describing Morphosyntax" by Tomas E. Payne. I'm on page
 > 30-something ATM. I've also saved various PDF papers and
 > extracts from websites.

I also downloaded a bunch of grammars from the web that I
occationally leaf through when searching for ideas.

Again, sorry, Sally.

Carsten

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