Re: Art is when someone says 'Now' -- or is it?

Jörg:
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Earlier in this thread, I compared conlangs to role-playing games.
A role-playing game usually consists of a set of rules and a
collection of facts about the game world.  Before you begin play,
the story and many details of the game world are undetermined;
they get filled in during play.  A good role-playing group should
strive, in my opinion, at internal consistency: events in new game
sessions should not contradict what has happened in earlier sessions.
And the rules should not be changed willy-nilly during play.
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Well, now I wonder what the equivalent of an Aqua Teen Hunger
Force conlang would be like--that is, where at the end of the
episode, nothing that happened (main characters dying, etc.)
carries over, unless the writers feel like it.  Either way, nothing
is explained.  I imagine it might be something like that crazy
language Leia speaks at the beginning of Return of the Jedi
when she's rescuing Han: a language where you say the exact
same thing twice, but it means something totally different the
second time round.

I suppose what you'd need is the following:

(1) A medium for publication (otherwise no one will notice the changes).
(2) Minimal constants (after all, the characters are the same in the
show).
(3) Total flexibility elsewhere.

A language with the same grammar but totally different lexemes
each time a text is published might be interesting.  Essentially,
a relex every time.  I suppose that's something like a code,
though.

The other option would be the same words, but a new grammar
each time.  Taking something like the Kelenala wordlist and
creating a brand new grammar each time you write a text.
That, though, would essentially be like creating a bunch of
different languages.  Hmm...  I don't know how it would work.

-David
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