Re: A language idea

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> Wow!  A GTwinkie account!  Wasn't expecting to see one of those
> again.  Welcome to the list, Patrick!
Thanks :)

> I took the one-quarter intro class.  I seem to recall that the professor
> was stubbornly Americanist and, for instance, marked transcriptions
> wrong if they used e.g. [tS)] instead of c-with-hacek.
>
Prof. Rockwood seems to be alright, if I ever get to be rich enough that I can
afford it I'm going to donate a fair sum of money to build a linguistics school
here... hey I can dream can't I?

> > So, comments? Questions?
>
> Your aggressively infixing language looks like a lot of fun!  But
> you have to be careful, for that way lies potentially uncontrollable
> homonymy, metonymy, and general ambiguymy. Er, ambiguity.  A tightly-
> constrained syllable structure would help here.
>
Yeah, when I began playing with the genitive case I found a good deal of humor
in the following thing:

dulkatrikatrikadultanathtanathtanathtanathtanathtanathtanathtanath
dul|ka|tri|ka|tri|ka|dul|tanath|tanath|tanath|tanath|tanath|tanath|tanath|tanath|
"the man of the man of the man of the man of the man of the man of the man of
the man" which could in theory be used to describe ancestry. Yes, I know it's
farfetched but it's all the more fun.

dul- :: tri- :: ka- :: are all masculine prefixes and are used "artistically"

As for syllable structure, I am trying to make it so that it isn't too difficult
for the massive words to flow, but I haven't written it out as such yet.

> Formerly gt0714c@prism.gatech.edu
Wow, 4 numbers... We're getting up to gti fairly soon by my understanding.

Patrick Jarrett
currently: gtg346g@mail.gatech.edu
B.S. Computer Science eta: 2006