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

From:Jonathan Chang <zhang23@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 2:45
on 2/28/05 6:15 PM, Henrik Theiling at theiling@ABSINT.COM wrote:

> Jonathan Chang <zhang23@...> writes:
>> 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. > > Yes, ambiguity was a major design principle of the language -- it > introduced some confusion in a relay by being so short, I think... :-)
LOL
> Currently the language is frozen, because I cannot really *think* that > ambiguously and I think I've reached a fixed point in understanding > the structure -- I don't seem to be able to make progress. Any time I > wanted to introduce some sort of improvement into the grammar, it did > not let me to. It seemed to be consistent in being ambiguous. It's > meant to be a protolang now.
Hmmm, mayhaps Tyl Sjok's "offspring" could be like a less ambiguous language much like Classical Chinese is to Ancient Chinese, but no less "poetic." Part of my goal with gomilego is to create a creole with similar metapoetics but arising from (futuristic, polyglot) pidgin techno-slang. Easier said than done... ::wrings hands:: ... but definitely part of the monkeybrain-wrackin' fun.
> **Henrik > > PS: My site is www.theiling.de. Tyl Sjok is at /conlang/s2. Quite > outdated, though, since when I changed to a new Latex2HTML, it > broke.
Thanx. -- Hanuman Zhang, MangaLanger Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode, orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap... "Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" - title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter, _The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_