Re: The Face Of God

Adrian wrote:

>Oh, I think they would look much better in a language where each
>attribute is a single word! I can also imagine the wheel being the
>basis for a variety of devices, such as a candle stand with twelve
>holes and each attribute engraved in gold on the wood.
But better still if the words were very short: imagine one logographic
character associated with each one, perhaps only one syllable like Chinese.
Agglutinative grammar means I get to stick words and affixes together to
make new words like the ones I used here, but they end up longer than what
might be in better taste.

>With all this in mind, there is considerable potential for another
>language to do a better and more poetic job than I was able to do in
>English.
I've read something somewhere which said it was a bad idea to start with a
corpus of gibberish that sounds/looks the way you want and then try to work
a grammar around that. But this is the way I've started pretty much every
language I've written. :) Eventually I violated every feature of that
corpus, but it was a place to start.
You might take this approach by coining short single words for each of
these attributes and then working out "excuses" for them afterwards.

M

P.S. I've replaced that Rhean flag with a better one by Joseph Fatula. It's
at http://www.geocities.com/bluetextblack/rh.jpg