Re: Heyas all!

On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 13:30:06 +0100 Christophe Grandsire
<Christophe.Grandsire@...> writes:
>At 00:59 25/03/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>Hello folks! Just thought I'd say hi since I'm new to the list.
>
>        Welcome here Trace Erin Kern (what a weird name!).
Thank you. One of my talents is coming up with unusual names.

<snip>
>        In fact, we discuss here 'creating languages'. Whether they
>are for
>fictional species, societies or just for oneself is another thing. But
>it's
>true that some of us create languages for fictional species (my new
>project, Tj'a-ts'a~n, is just one of them). If you're creating alien
>species for your stories, I think you also create the societies where
>they
>live, to give them their own cultural background. In that case, you
>should
>also subscribe to the mailing list CONCULTURE, which is an offspring
>of
>CONLANG, dedicated to the building of fictional cultures. To subscribe
>to
>it, go to http://www.onelist.com and follow the steps to join in (I
>don't
>remember exactly how to do it!).
Unfortunately I don't currently have access to the web, just this email
account. However I help moderate another list on the Onelist server, so
if you can toss me the actual list name, I should be able to subscribe.
But yes I am also creating background and societies for my stories.

>        Could you develop that please? What do you mean by "generate a
>new language"? If you only take the entries of the dictionary and give
>new words to them, I think that's only relexification, and I don't find
it
>very useful.
This project is intended to be a 'quick patch' piece of work. Used
primarily for writers who want to create a species and new language for
either one-shot stories, or a short series.
As for what I mean by 'creating'...One author gave me the advice to use
the species culture as a language base. A militaristic species will
likely have alot of harsh gutteral <sp?> phonetics, where a more relaxed
or perhaps reptillian species will have alot of soft and sibilant sounds.
I want to incorperate that advice into the program. It asks you for some
base consonants, sounds, etc to use as a seed. Then it would take an
English/Terran/etc dictonary and generate a translation dictionary.
So yes this would be more of a relexification program.

>        How would you handle the syntax of languages here? I think
>that's a thing which can't be handled with an automatic program.
Good point. See above.

>>Any ideas folks?
>>
>>Trace Erin Kern -  TraceFox@juno.com
>>~Hah'Rooqh Tah'Khrine, Eayl Noh'Tahl~
>>~May you go in peace, all your journey~
>>
>
>        Is this sig in one of your languages?
Sort of. I've had the 'alien' words floating around in my head for a
while, then decided to give temporary meaning to them. This translation
isn't part of a full language unfortunately.

Trace Erin Kern  -  TraceFox@juno.com
~Hah'Rooqh Tah'Khrine, Eayl Noh'Tahl~
~May you go in peace, all your journey~

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