Re: CHAT: A sample of my newborn conlang

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:18:59 -0600
Danny Wier <dawier@...> wrote:

> From: "Stephen Mulraney" <ataltanie@...>
>
> > BTW, the lang has no conword associated with it. To quote someone's
> > post from a few weeks ago (Danny Wier, methinks), it's "a mystical
> > language for talking to God (or the curious musings of a madman)". Also
> > a language for writing shopping lists in and talking to yourself, and
> > your dog.
>
> That was indeed me. I got a cat to speak my nonsense to at least.
When I read this first I though it was "I got a cat to speak my nonsense,
at least" ;)



> But I've used some of what I called earlier "Tech-O-Slang" in IRC, and now I'm
> immortalized in the #chatzone hall of fame
Did ppl understand from context (cf. "A Clockwork Orange") or not?


>(actually that's for many other
> quotable reasons). Or since I can't write songs in English, I'll write stuff
> in Tech and mess with people's heads and all. Part of my experimental
> alternative/country/rock/blues/jazz bent.
In Tech, no-one need know the lyrics are awful ;)

> ~Danny~
Stephen

PS. Thanks for the quote - it was reading that that partially removed from me the
burden of creating a cultural background for the lang, and set me on actually
designing the lang. Never occured to me that there was already a perfectly servicable
world lying around waiting to be used - the real one ;)