Re: The 2008 Smiley Award Winner: Ithkuil
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 14, 2008, 15:43 |
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Hallo!
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:18:07 -0700, David J. Peterson wrote:
A good and reasonable choice! While Ithkuil is not the kind
of language I'd wish to create (I prefer naturalistic languages,
though I sometimes do digress into experimental engelanging),
it is awesome and well-designed. At first glance, it looks
like a typical "kitchen sink" language of the kind inexperienced
conlangers sometimes produce in their second attempt after
being brushed off for their first conlang being a cipher of
their L1, with all those phonemes, cases, etc., but John did
not only think well about all that, but also managed to follow
through and come up with something that actually works out
well and is amazing in its own way. Chapeau!
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