Re: Let Me Introduce Myself

From: "Yoon Ha Lee" <yl112@...>

> Konnichiwa!  (Here's hoping it's the right time of day...)
Doumo hajimemashite !! (Nice to meet you!)

> BTW, is native language influence something you're seeking to avoid?  (God
> knows, my conlangs are peppered with obscure and mangled borrowings from
> Korean or Latin or Turkish or whatever strikes my fancy.)
That's a really interesting point.
I have a book on conlang movement - " Der Kamph gegen Babel" by Paulo Ronai
and in this book, the auther points out examples of  unintended influence
from the
designer's native language.
(By the way, as you can easily see from its title, this book might have too
much emphasis on 'universal language'
 side of conlangs,
but this book actually contains lots of interesting conlangs, for example,
"babm" by Fuishiki Okamoto,
one of the conlangs designed in Japan.)
So, at least, there are some people thinking this kind of influence is not a
good idea.
As for me, I'm just trying to avoid influence from Japanese language simply
because I don't like the idea of
Japanese people having more access to the language than other people.
So my idea is trying to adopt from as various language as possible ( in
reality, not so many, because of the limitation
of my ability) to naturalize the influence from the specific natural
language.
On the other hand, I have no control over 'uncoucious' part of influence, so
I hope some of you guys point it out
to help me.

Hiro

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