Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 22, 2003, 13:48 |
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>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?
>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_?
>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.
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