Re: conlang trends (was: Nakiltipkaspimak)

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, taliesin the storyteller wrote:

> > > * yl112@cornell.edu <yl112@...> [001011 19:45]:
> > > > How does a matrix-language work?
> > >
> A bit much to type in... Scans at http://taliesin.nvg.org/conlang/chanur/
<blink after looking at samples>  I'm a bit puzzled.  The first sample
seems to be "regular" sentences but with constraints so they all come out
parallel.  Not saying it couldn't happen that way--maybe a passage is
spoken or transmitted by columns instead of rows, though unless each
column entry is simultaneous (also possible--perhaps speech using
different frequences or "channels"?  FM or AM...) it seems like it'd be
hard to get information across quickly--but I'm not sure how, from the
passages, you'd be able to tell a matrix language from poetry with
parallel structures.

<waiting to be enlightened by wiser people>

YHL