Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 23, 2003, 9:22 |
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On Wednesday 23 April 2003 01:48 am, you wrote:
> >because as a kid I was exposed to the prevalent idea in Papua Niugini, >of
> >Tok Ples - the idea that each place, each location, has its own
>
> Yu save Tok Pisin bilong Niu Gini?
Mi save - olsem mi lusim planti save long taim mi lusim Niugini.
>
> >In short, I could no more consider a language without a story and a
> > people, than I could consider dehydrating water.
> >
> >As far as the 1000 word minimum, I find that neither Tolkein nor
> >le Guin ever got that far before they started using their languages
> >in their stories
>
> Ever hear the recording "Songs of the Kesh", taken from le Guin's _Always
> Coming Home_?
Nogat. Mi ritim buk, mi kisim buk, olsem mi no harim ol song.
>
> >Pisin with a belief that Tok Ples is how the world organizes itself?
>
> I believe this is one reason I've not done more than sketch out the
> societies/cultures in which my 3 conlangs would be spoken - it is very
> unlikely that a whole planet would speak the same language, and as much as
> I enjoy my conlangs, am not taken by the idea of creating and tracking
> dialects, etc. thereof.
True. I find it unbelievable that some SF writers can blithely write trash
about such-and-such a planet having such-and-such a language and ignore the
likeliehood that that is only the trade talk. That I find much like the
oversimplification of climate you find in too much of SF - "It was raining
that morning on planet XYZ" being a stock phrase I've read quoted. The Whole
Planet? All of it having Morning at one and the same time? For forty days
and forty nights?
Some things I do take seriously. And that is one of them.
Wesley Parish
--
Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."