Re: Let Me Introduce Myself

On Tuesday, November 27, 2001, at 05:14 , Hiroshi Kato wrote:

> 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."
>
In that case, 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.
>
Just seeking clarification.  Also, someday I really should collect
greetings in the conlangs of people on this list...I'm afraid I don't have
time to learn 'em all (heck, I don't have my own known or developed well
enough...and shoot, do *mine* have greetings?  uh-oh) but it would be nice
to know.

> 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.
>
<nod>  Have you seen Rich Morneau's essays on artificial language design at
http://www.srv.net/~ram/essays.html ?
He is concerned mainly with auxlangs, however he does have some
interesting and useful essays on accessibility issues in design that you
might find helpful.

> 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!
>
<laugh>  And we do have a Hungarian on-list, Frank Valoczy, so I bet you
could get plenty of help on Hungarian should you desire it!

Jaa,
YHL

Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofvelis.com]
http://pegasus.cityofveils.com

Experience: what you get when you expected something else.

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