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Re: Duke Keenan the Ok guy returns

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Saturday, November 30, 2002, 19:30
En réponse à Keenan <makeenan@...>:

> Greetings one and all! >
Welcome back!
> I have returned after a long respite which started in july. I realize > that I don't post much when I'm here and everyone is asking themselves > "Who the hell IS this guy!" >
Nope! :)) I do remember you very well Duke! ;))) But we've had quite a few people joining the list lately so there are indeed quite a few who don't know you :) .
> Anyways. I'm the creator of that unfortunate and somewhat hideous > language, Ok. See for yourself: > http://web.syr.edu/~makeenan/ocpage.html >
Don't be so hard on yourself! Ok is not that bad :) .
> > My philosophy on reworking conlangs is to start over, keeping what I > liked about the language and replacing what I didn't like. Thats why > the > Okpage sits there completely unchanged. >
Well, that's mine too, except that when I do that (it's rare, only two of my languages have followed this therapy ;))) ), I scrap the former version entirely at the end (or at least I make it so that the outer world will never find about it ;))) . It's easy since O and Maggel are both languages which had no existence except on a few sheets of paper until I decided to rework them).
> Essentially > I developed a system of asimilation for both vowels and consonants. > Something that might have happened to Ok as it went through the ages. > Glasca is what I call Ok's daughter language. Its much tidier and > hasn't > got all those consonant clusters. >
Why don't you post more about it?
> > It occured to me that Ok doesn't need tense and aspect! (duh). Trying > to > represent it, just globs up the word. Also by scratching around for > just > six different vowels, I can get rid of all those words with the > consonant clusters and replace them with nice neat CV and VC words! > YEEHAW!! >
Hehe, funny you mention that, no less than yesterday somebody (sorry, I already forgot who it was :((( ) was asking how could a languge work without marking case on nouns or tense on verbs.
> So I did it and the result is Jugdjei. Go thither and marvel: > http://web.syr.edu/~makeenan/lesson_one.htm > > This is four lessons in the form of a phrasebook, plus notes that > explain a lot of stuff that conlangers are interested in. There are > also > also 1700 word English to Jugdjei and Jugdjei to English dictionaries > but these elsewhere and who cares anyways. >
I'll have to have a look at that...
> Shto! > Duke >
Welome back again! Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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Keenan <makeenan@...>Some bits on Glasca. was: Duke Keenan the Ok guy returns