Re: Conlangs: a window on the mind?

On Sun, 4 Oct 1998 10:24:33 -0500 "R. Skrintha" <srik@...>
writes:
>In an early (unwittingly) relex project of mine, the con-word "ensser"
>kept popping up in my mind as a suitable word to mean 'between' for no
>reason apparent to me then. Only much later did it strike me that I
>had
>subconsciously taken French "entre", given it the US-like -re->-er
>end-flip and included the Modern High German feature of having an -ss-
>instead of English/Scandinavian intervocalic -t-. It did give me the
>feeling of taking a peek into my own subconscious mind!
>
>Have others detected such Freudian/Jungian patterns in their
>conlanging?
>
>Regards,
>skrintha

Well, i based the Rokbeigalmki words for "this" and "that" on a
combination of the English and Hebrew words - "this/that" and
"hazeh/hahu", making in Rokbeigalmki:

dhaz = this
dhu = that

only later i realized that _-az_ and _-u_ corresponded to the
Rokbeigalmki pronouns _az_ and _uz_, "i" and "it" - something near the
speaker vs.  something farther away.  This created a whole paradigm of
words using -az/-u:

dhaz / dhu = this / that
paz / pu = here / there
taz / tu = now / then
kaz / ku = here&now / there&then

Also, for some reason i've always equated the vowels
a / e / i / o / u
with the pronouns
i / you / she / he / it.


-Stephen (Steg)

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