Re: USAGE: Language revival
From: | Charles <catty@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, November 24, 1999, 21:46 |
Patrick Dunn wrote:
> I like the irregularity, the difficulty, and the strangeness of
> our language. It makes such wonderful poetic tricks possible.
>
> It's why I got turned off of Glosa. I couldn't write a decent poem in it.
> (Same with Esperanto, although that had some promise) Too damned orderly.
http://www.zeta.org.au/~rgaskell/shakesp.htm
: Somni, dulce somni
: Natura moli kura-fe, kom mi pa sti tu anti
: ke tu pa sto kata mi oku-teg
: e los mi este in oblivio
Glosa has enough unstressed little grammatical Words
to achieve an English-like poetic Rhythm, I believe;
and one could likely coerce it to appear quite brutal,
except that all Auxlangers have such gentle Natures.
Again, the Capitalization of common Nouns would help.