Re: You might be a conlanger if...

----- Original Message -----
From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>


> san huna!
:):):)  Oh dear, I think Teoh has slipped away permanently into conlanger
madness, and is now in the category of "past all hope."  Teoh, blink twice
if you can understand me!  Teoh... Teoh...  san huna!

>
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 11:41:51PM -0500, Sally Caves wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Caleb Hines" <cph9fa@...>
>>
>> HAR!  <-- (note rhotic) :)  I join Rene in r.o.t.f.l.m.h.o.
>>
>> YOU MIGHT BE A CONLANGER IF...
>>
>> You can't watch Star Trek anymore because you simply can't accept the
>> Universal Translator.
>
> huu ka kuera Sari tse na nari.
Is that me?? :O

> [...]
>> You can't finish The Jumble: That Mixed Up Word Game, anymore:  "Nagyo!
>> Cool! Where's my notebook?" (you're supposed to just write down "agony").
>
> nari, nari.
>
> [...]
>> You think of uehar (or plug in your own word) before you can think of
>> Frau,
>> mujer, femme, mulier, gwraig, donna, wif, or woman.
>
> bunari ta diru ta?
> [...]
>> You've actually USED uehar (or plug in your own word) in trying to say
>> "woman" in 1) a foreign language, 2) your own language.
>
> tse kei huu na tsana ta e, san tara' bunari be e'aniin?
> [...]
>> >*You didn't realize at first that there was actually a story to
>> >accompany
>> >the languages in LOTR.
>>
>>    Or better, you felt bitterly jealous of Tolkien when you found out
>> that
>> the story had a developed language behind it.
>
> Tolkien sii?
> [...]
>> >*You answer the phone in your conlang, just in case its a salesman.
>>
> huu ka: san tse!
> san tara' ka: uat iu sei?
> huu ka: tse ka tsana sii?
> san tara' ka: du ius pi' inkiris?
> huu ka: sii na tse ka surat?
> san tara' ka: o kei nefa main
> huu ka: san tse sii?
> san tara' ka: *click*
I understood a few of those. :)
Better yet, you devise an answering machine message in your language.  About
a decade ago, with much glee, and with the chortling help of my husband, we
devised a Teonaht greeting, advising people to select 1 for Chris and 2 for
Sally.  It lasted for about fifteen minutes, because it would be bad news if
anybody from the department called me.  (But it was funny!)
>
>
> T
>
> --
> buara ka tuharas fai. hesan so pamra itan.
I agree.

Andreas Johansson elo krespr:
> > You've started making up words in your conlang just to get rhymes in
> > your
> > poetry.
>
> I reserve worry for the day I _stop_ doing that, on account of my langs'
> vocabs
> being big enough it's no longer necessary.
Yeah, I know.  Because then you're REALLY obligated to write drasty rhyming
poetry in it. :)

san tara'ka. *click*

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