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Re: World premiere

From:J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 10, 2004, 9:09
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. --- *DiDJiBuNgA!!* Hang Binary,baby...--- Hanuman "Stitch" Zhang, ManglaLanger (mangle + manga + lang) <A HREF="http://www.boheme-magazine.net">=> boheme-magazine.net</A> Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode, orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap... ...languages are "naturally evolved wild systems... So language does not 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_ = ¡ gw'araa legooset caacaa ! ¡ reez'arvaa. saalvaa. reecue. scoopaa-goomee en reezijcloo ! = [Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and Recycle!]

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Marshall and Endemann <vaiaata@...>