Re: Pangram (was Re: My first romlang sentence)
| From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 2:15 |
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Hi!
Jonathan Chang <zhang23@...> writes:
> on 2/28/05 5:25 AM, Henrik Theiling at theiling@ABSINT.COM wrote:
>...
> > It lu kyngka twxo hw njes. = 'Words make you get rid of enemies 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.
Yes, ambiguity was a major design principle of the language -- it
introduced some confusion in a relay by being so short, I think... :-)
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.
**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outdated, though, since when I changed to a new Latex2HTML, it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.
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