Re: Let Me Introduce Myself

From: "Yoon Ha Lee" <yl112@...>
> >
> <bowing>  And I'm afraid I've exhausted most of my Japanese...can I say
> "doumo hajimemashite" back or is there another phrase I should use?  :-)
It's totally acceptable just to say the same phrase back, or more politely,
you can say " kochira koso hajimemashite."

> I'm sure people will be happy to comment.  :-)  Do you intend your conlang
> to be used for communication?  I don't mean to be flippant; many people on
> this list, myself included, either deliberately pattern our conlangs after
> features of languages we enjoy (Finnish seems to be pretty popular, IIRC),
> or work on "artlangs" for the pleasure of it.  My conlangs are not
> intended to be used in "real life," but rather for my whimsy.  You are a
> braver soul than I.  :-)
Oh, please do not get me wrong.
I am designing my conlang simply because I want to satisfy my taste!
Of course it would be really fun, if I could communicate other people with
this language. ( and I hope at least it has a 'capability' of it) But that's
not the main target.

And in fact, I am not at all trying to make the grammer simpler in the hope
that someday it'll be accepted by many people as a communication tool ( or
as a auxlang)
I just want it be more interesting and fun.

As for influence from natural languages, I'm not trying to avoid it, but
just I don't want it to be 'obvious.'
And I want it to be as 'neutral' as possible so that if someone gets
interested in this language, it's equally accessible regardless of his or
her language background.

But, well, now that you pointed out, maybe I'm imposing unnecessary
restriction on my conlang. If I like Hungarian, for example, my conlang can
be as similar to Hangarian as I like!
I agree it makes sense.

>
> Jaa mata (I hope that's not too informal),
Jaa ne!

Hiro

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