Re: Conlangea Multilingual Phrasebook, 2nd Ed.

Hi!

Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...> writes:
>...
> I must admit I haven't come yet too far with greetings. So
> indeed, you've done nice work.
>
> But ... don't you think this is a little longwinded? Or are
> your greetings merely thought as blessings? I'm having
> trouble with longwindedness in my conlang as well, that's
> why I'm asking. Though OTOH French has "S'il te/vous plaît"
> for "please", so ...
I really don't see any problem with long utterances.  Do you think it
is inefficient?  I tried to make Tyl Sjok very short, but it just
messed up relays due to its high degree of ambiguity... :-)

No, really, in my current Qthyn|gai, I have the feeling that the words
are too short.  The language can theoretically incorporate more than
Greenlandic, yet Greenlandic words are often longer in terms of
morpheme count and regularly longer in terms of syllables/morae.  I
have to work a lot at that language to get a good length of words,
I suppose.

> Yomu eban,
That's not long at all! :-))))

**Henrik