Re: World premiere

In a message dated 2004:03:10 07:59:13 AM, Christopher Marshall - composer
(vaiaata@IHUG.CO.NZ) writes:

>[...] Niuspi is very much a work in progress. It grew out of the brief for
>this commissioned work: a non-religious, positive text with an >international
flavour. After months of exploring Esperanto, Ido, Glosa and >Lojban a new
language seemed to start growing spontaneously as I wrote >the text - a very
peculiar experience!

    LOL I came to conlangin' thru Glosa (& IALs), too. I "discovered" Glosa
when looking for a "sci-fi"/neo-Futurist language idea I could use in a short
story. So I was a Glosaist, but as my knowledge of both linguistics and Glosa
grew I got fed up with Glosa's short-comings - as well as being told by Glosa's
Powers-That-Be to stop advocating overhauling Glosa to make it closer to a
creole-like language & to stop proposing Glosa spelling reforms (hehe).
    I went "renegade" and gave up on IALs. I luckily found the more creative
conlangs... and found my own niche in a hyper-creative conlang specialization:
mangalangs... just call it _Applied Gonzo-SciFi Linguistics_ ;)

>So far much of the basic grammar is in place - but
>only a few hundred words. It is pretty stable, the last change (Glosa's
>numerative 'plu' being replaced by 'zi' for aesthetic reasons) occurred
>several months ago.
    Nice likeable change there. I proposed _pli_ *barf*.

>As you will see from the text and translation below, by far the strongest
>influence on Niuspi is Glosa. I love the creative flexibility of a truly
>isolating language, though (from a musical standpoint I stress) I find
>Glosa's constant polysyllabic nature a bit clunky.
    LOL. Clunky like a wind-up machine-toy... nuthin' wrong with a clunky
toy, mind you, they can be quite amusin'...

    BTW my fav natlang pidgin is Bislama. Gotta love a language named after
one of my fav seafoods (which I can not eat till I kill off a lil nasty virus
in my liver).
    My fav conlang pidgin is Toki Pona.


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     Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars
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warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap...

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impose order on a chaotic universe, but reflects its own wildness back." - Gary
Snyder

"Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
a chapter on pidgins & creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_

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