Re: Pangram (was Re: My first romlang sentence)

on 2/28/05 5:25 AM, Henrik Theiling at theiling@ABSINT.COM wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Caeruleancentaur wrote:
>> Has anyone written a sentence in his conlang(s) that contains all the
>> phonemes in the conlang?  I'm still working on mine.
>
> I composed one in Tyl Sjok:
>
> It lu kyngka twxo hw njes. = 'Words make you get rid of enemies early.'
>
> There are not so many phonemes in Tyl Sjok...  Unfortunately, 'w' occurs
> twice, otherwise it would be perfect. :-)
>
> It   lu kyngka twxo hw njes.
> /?i.t  lu k1N.ka t3.Xo t3 njE.s/
> [?It=  lu k1Nga  t3Xo  t3 njEs=]
>
> it     - to say; word
> lu     - make: resultative causative particle
> kyngka - to loose
> twxo   - enemy
> hw     - to happen at a certain time
> njes   - to rise; as a time: early
>
> There are probably a thousand other interpretations of the sentence
> due to the ambiguous structure of the language.  Just read it like
> Ancient Chinese.
>
> **Henrik
Niceness. Good to know that there is another "fan" of Ancient Chinese on the
list. Ambiguity is a rather interesting conlang aesthetic IMHO - it adds a
poetic/metapoetic dimensionality to the conlang that goes beyond mere or
simple idiomatic usage.

I must say I think I have visited your website a few times. I lost the URL
when I switched from Mac OS 9 to iMac OS 9.2... I'll get it from langmaker.


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