Re: conlang trends (was: Nakiltipkaspimak)

* yl112@cornell.edu <yl112@...> [001011 19:45]:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
>
> > *grmpf*! One more incorporating language... You're all
> > thieves! :) What is it with this new batch 'a 'langers...
> > all incorporatin', all active-systems... What will be
> > the next "big minds think alike" -> "conlangers conlang
> > alike" wave... Matrix-languages? (as in C. J. Cherry's
> > Chanur-series)
>
> (humbly) I'm a newbie but I wasn't even aware what other people
> on-list were doing when I decided to make Chevraqis an active
> language...and I don't even know what an incorporating language
> *is.*
Ah, 'twas just me wounded pride insisting on net-time... a good
thing with conlangs is: nobody can tell you what to do, and
you're your own worst critic (I ought to now...).

> How does a matrix-language work?
LOL Good question! Guess I could type inn one of the
"conversations" from one of the books. Weird stuff.


t.