Re: g0miileg0, v3rzjen 1.2, fraekt0 1 <mega-long>
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, February 10, 2003, 20:14 |
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I'm too tired to look thru' this with much attention right now, but I
thought I'd just point out that the Earth's ice caps don't hold sufficient
ice to raise the sea levels by more than ~65 meters.
Andreas
Czhang wrote:
>hijaa gom-leg0-serii h0mii! (HiYa Con-Language-list people!)
> g0miileg0 per juu leg0-viz ludo biilau ....
>-------------------------------------------------------
>
>"Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones"
> - title of the chapter on pidgins and creoles in _The Power of Babel:
>A
>Natural History of Language_ by John McWhorter, 2001 CE
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>CONCULTURAL NOTE:
>
> In response to floods in South Asia in 2122 CE, the UN and the UNEP
>(UN
>Environmental Programme) sent flood-control engineers and peacekeeping
>police
>from the Netherlands, Gurkhas from Nepal and French Foreign Legionaires to
>India [Bharat] - one of the first nations of many nations to be hit worst
>(besides Bangladesh and Pakistan).
> Besides the many experienced, "battle-hardened" flood-control experts
>from the Netherlands, Japan and Italy - who directed and strategized the
>"Bharat UN Relief Campaign" - volunteer emergency aid workers and
>support-and-supply technicians came from Germany; Russia; China; the United
>States (mainly Californians); Mexico; Brazil; Canada; Great Britain; Spain;
>Israel; Egypt; Saudi Arabia; Australia; New Zealand and the Maori Autonomy
>of
>Aotearoa; Polynesia Libre; Indonesia; Brunei and Azania (New South Africa).
>They all quickly learned both new terraforming tactics and the "Restricted
>Englishes" or ESP ("Englishes for Specific/Special Purposes") called
>_EmergencySpeak_ and _PoliceSpeak_. By late 2123, an estimated 3 million
>volunteers and 125,000 rescue and police dogs had descended on India.
>Amongst
>these volunteers were the true pioneers of terraforming.
> Meanwhile UNESCO technicians worked on saving "World Heritage
>Treasures"
>- invaluable cultural resources and artifacts - and a massive effort to
>rapidly relocate the Bibliotheca Alexandrina of Alexandria, Egypt before
>flooding in Egypt drowned the library.
> The Campaign was headquartered in Varanasi (formerly Benares), in
>north
>central India, on the Ganges River in Uttar Pradesh State. [One of India's
>oldest cities, Varanasi is the holiest city of the Hindus. The city is also
>sacred to Buddhists, Jains, and Sikhs. (The city is also home headquarters
>to
>a nationally known and respected "semi-unorthodox, renegade" Franciscan
>order
>notorious for wearing saffron robes instead of brown habits,"Hindu-izing
>Christian ideas," and generally carrying on like _sadhu_, "holy men").
>Being
>a cultural centre, it is additionally home to the Benares Hindu and
>Sanskrit
>Universities and to the new location of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.]
> During 2123-2136, a rapid succession of polar ice melts triggered by
>both
>Global Warming trends and a wave of global volcanic activity, extreme
>flooding of coastal areas world-wide occurred - drastically raising the sea
>level approximately 150-175 metres above "normal" level. Not only did
>millions lose their lives to the flooding, volcanic activity, tsunamis or
>landslides, massive refugee exoduses - accompanied by famines and pandemics
>-
>created severe socio-economic upheavals and regional armed conflicts.
>Governments fell and whole countries were torn apart and devastated in the
>Global Refugee Wars - outright genocidal warfare and use of tactical
>nuclear
>devices by some countries made a bad situation even worse. Not only
>civilization but all ideas of humanity itself and human existence seemed
>quite threatened.
> The UN Bharat Relief Campaign fell apart in the wake of this
>increasingly
>_global_ disaster. By late 2137, most of the Campaigners, who had the
>means,
>left for what remained of their countries, families and homes. Quite a few
>commited suicide.
> Still others - 410,617 according to 2138 census and citizenship data
>-
>settled in various parts of "unflooded" India - "either by defiant heroic
>choice or by utterly mind-numbed dire circumstance - or both" as one
>Indian
>English-language reporter wrote.
> In 2139, Asoka, a newly created suburban area of Varanasi was given to
>a
>626 member UNESCO group [a group predominately Dutch, Italian, Japanese,
>South African, French Polynesian, and Californian] as "Eternal Thanks from
>the People of Bharat" by the Indian government after popular grass-root
>demands were vigourously voiced by grateful Indian citizens of all walks of
>life.
> The 193 children of these Campaigners and some of their Indian
>schoolmates (as well as some of their CyberSpace friends from around the
>world) created their own language. Distinct from their parents' many
>different languages, the expanded English creole called "CampaignSpeak"
>they
>grew up with and that of the Indian languages, it started as
>semi-secretive,
>slangy, polyglot-lexifier code-language that rather rapidly became a pidgin
>...
> Beginning in 2168 CE - as the first years of the New Ice Age began, it
>is
>_their_ children (and their Indian and CyberSpace friends) who - with the
>"non-authoritarian assistance and eagerly curious encouragement" of their
>much beloved, iconoclastic Montessori school teacher Sri Guru Brother Paolo
>Krishnamurti Mezzofanti Buzzi-Dass - created the mesolect creole form
>called
>_g0miileg0_, the "lingua franca" - besides Wurld Inglis, Mandarin and
>Spanish
>- that was to be eventually taken to the stars by the Jaganatium-Drive
>multi-generational spaceships of the late 23rd Century CE...
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>g0miileg0, v3rzjen 1.2, fraekt0 1
>
>_g0miileg0_ /g@U.mi:leg@U/ -=- [beautiful-]junk-language -=-
> _muIltiigløssa Nii0-Dzjii0-Fjuutsj3r0-izm0 krii0
>mes0leg0kit_
> (a polyglot, "Neo-Geo-Futurist" creole mesolect)
> _g0mii_ - from Japanese "gomi" - has a higher aesthetic (and
>paracultural) value than mere _dzjaangk_ /dZA:nk/ "junk
>[trash]"
>or _kaka_ /ka:ka:/ "[unrecyclable] shit/caca" - & -
>distantly relateable with PIE * kom-, Latin _com_ , _co-_ & PIE
>*gel-, Latin _glomus_, _glomer-_("ball") Latin _globus_
> _leg0_ - from Greek "lego" ("logos") and the Danish modular
>construction
>toy
>
> _s0n0leg0set_ - sound language system ("phonology") -
>& _graffiileg0set_ - write language system ("orthography")
>
>PLIJ GOMS0N0//CONSONANTS
>
> g0miileg0's semi-phonemic/semi-"deviant" orthography - and g0miileg0's
>writing system's _aelfazeita_ "alphazeta" - is loosely based on graphic
>aspects of the IPA/X-SAMPA, "spelling reformed" Dutch, Japanese_Romaji_,
>Romanized Sanskrit ...and, of course, "g0mii-m0d0" NeoGeoFuturist
>style/aesthetics (influenced by Italian and Russian Futurism;
>multi-national
>Dadaism; Dutch and Russian Constructivism; Punk; CyberPunk science-fiction
>and "Grunge" typography).
>
> Orthography - when it differs from ASCII-IPA (X-SAMPA) -
>it is in [ ].
>
>plosives p, b t, d k, g
>nasals m---F [m] n N [ ng ]
>-
>-
>fricatives f, v s, z S, Z [ sj, zj ]
>h , _h [ h ]
>-
>approximants r\ [ r ] j
>lateral approximant l [ l ]---------------------L [ Il ]
>glides w-----------------------------------------w
> The glide, semi-vowel /w/ is a labiodental-velar approximant
>affricates tS, dZ [ tsj, dzj ]
>
> NOTE: Like in Dutch "turbolanguage", anything that sounds like
>[ks] in word-final position is written _x_, like for example _haelix_
>"helix",
>_ziirox_ "xerox" (a copy), _Djuublex_ "Dublex" (a conlang). Otherwise
>(initial and medial), "zz", i.e. _aezzperim'nt0_ "experiment/experimental";
>_aezzistii_ "exist/existence"; _Aezzodo_ "Exodus"
>
>/l/, /r\/, /j/, /h/and /w/ are semi-vowels
>to some extent - especially syllable/word-final,
>/m/--/F/, /n/ and /N/ can also be "semi-vowels"
>
>some combined sounds:
> /hw/ [ hw ]
> /kw/ [ kw ]
> /b_h/ [ bh ]
> /d_h/ [ dh ]
> /g_h/ [ gh ]
> /k_h/ [ kh ]
> /k_hd_h/ [ kdh ]
> /sk/ [ sk ]
> /skr\/ [ skr ]
> /sl/ [ sl ]
> /sr\/ [ sr ]
> /t_h/ [ th ]
> /vr\/ [vr ]
> etc.
>
> * phonotactics:
>
> syllables _usually_ have a (C1)(S)V(V)(S)(C2)
>
> C1 - any consonant or semi-consonant
> C2 - nasal, fricative or liquid
> S - semi-vowel or liquid
> V - vowel or diphthong
>
> or a (C)(S)V(V)(S)(C) phonotactical structure
>
> C - any consonant or semi-consonant
> S - semi-vowel or liquid
> V - vowel or diphthong
>
>consonant clusters: epenthentic schwa (indeterminate central "short"
>vowel)
>or
> aspiration (i.e. /k_hd_h/ [kdh]) can be inserted to break up
>consonant clusters "difficult" for some speakers not used to
>a
>language with "strong" consonant clusters, i.e. Hiberno-Irish
>"fillim" or "filhm" for _film_, or, amongst Dutch
>speakers, [fIlYm] in Rotterdam or [fIL@m] in Amsterdam. Some
>pronunciations of _stop_ is "s'top" /s_htAp/and in rural, basilect
>Tok Pisin /s@ta:p/spelled locally as "satap."
>
>PLIJ VAU'IL//VOWELS
>
>asymetrical 10 vowel system:
>
> i: [ ii ] u: [ uu ]
> I [ i ] U [ u ]
> e
> @ [ ' ]
> & [ ae ]
>a: [ a ] A: [ aa ] Q [ o ]
> ^
> |
> |------with [O] and [V] as free variation allophones
>
> Vowel phonemes can have tense allophones in open syllables
>(with or without off-glides) - lax allophones in closed syllables.
> Vowels followed by a nasal [m, n, ng] can be nasalized.
>
> * 6 short vowels
>
>i /I/ as in "blip", "bit", "chip"
>e /e/ (before consonants) as in "dem", "ten","zen", "pen"
>ae /&/ as in "cat", "tan", "bat", "pan"
> North American English /&/ is essentially [E_A], that is [E] with
>advanced
> tongue root.
> o /Q/ as in "hot", "Glock," "dog", "gods", "bomb," "pod"
> _-glom-_, "bonk", (French) _bon_
>u /U/ as in "put", "books," "to","full","good"
> ' /@/ schwa - indeterminate, neutral central vowel
> as in the "a" in _Cuba_ /kju:b@/... or, allophonically, the short /a/
>of
>North Indian languages (i.e. the first vowel in _Punjabi_) -or- even the
>aspirated "a"s in the African-American "Ebonic" Vernacular _supa killa
>rappa_ ("super killer rapper")
>
> * 3 long vowels
>
>a /a:/ as in "dada", "nada", "caca"
>ii /i:/ as the vowels in "green," "beep", "be", "seat",
> the i in "machine", "spaghetti", "graffiti"
>uu /u:/ as in "goo", "ooze", "fool", "rule", and the double o in "googol"
>
> * 1 "ultra-long vowel/semi-diphthong" (allophonic vowel)
>
>aa /A:/ with [O] and [V] as free variation allophones
>
> * 7 diiftong/7 diphthongs
>
>/aI/ [ ij ]
>/aU/ [ au ]
>/@U/ [ 0 ] as in _ziir0_ "zero" /zi:r@U/,_g0_, _bushiid0_, _da0_ , _0m_
>/eI/ [ ei ] as in "bastard" pronunciations of _fortei_ "forte", _kaefei_
>"cafe", _aenimei_ "anime", & in _aelfazeita_
>/ju:/ [ juu ]
>/oI/ [ oi ]
>/wi:/ [ wii ]
>
> * R-kol3r sjiva/rhotic schwa
>
>/3:r\/ [ 3r ]
> should not be non-rhotic, i.e. the "a"s in the African-American
>"Ebonic"
> vernacular _supa killa rappa_ ("super killer rapper")
>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>-
>
>Metronomic, quasi-Japanese style of pronounciation that gives nearly equal
>loudness and duration to every syllable - the loudness and duration of
>syllables can be more or less uniform, with increases being used only
>occasionally to signal special emphasis of a concept or loud creaky voicing
>to emphasize a command.
>
>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> ! bon kaka p3r juu!
>
> /bQn ka.ka p3:r\ ju:/
>
> good shit to you
>
> "Good shit to you."
>
>
> This greeting is a take on the popular phrase "Shit Happens!":
>
>
> ! kaka saempa 0kor0!
>
> /ka.ka s&m.pa @Uk.or\.@U/
>
> shit NONP happen[s]/happening
>
>
> ^- NONP = NONPunctual aspect ... indicates a durative, habitual, or
>
>iterative aspect and is indifferent to the nonpast-past distinction.
>
> _Saempa_ evolved from _semper_/_sempre_, "always".
>
>
>
> -! oteIl0 luud0 loIl!
> (Othello [a game] play fun!)
>
>
> = S0n0 Ram. Ram S0n0. =
> (Sound {is} God-Reality. God-Reality {is} Sound.)
> [_Ram_ /rA:m/ is the Sanskrit word
> for the infinite, formless form of the God-Reality,
> the aspect worshipped by the god Hanuman]
>
> leg0set saempa mjuutazii
> /le.g@U.set s&m.pa mju:ta.zi:/
> language always change
> Lanuage is always changing.
>
> leg0-mjuutazii n0 raat...
> /leg@U.mju:ta.zi: n@U r\A:t/
> language-change no rot
> Language change is not decay.
>
> plij leg0 finiz vaak gom - tada - dem gom fazin mjuutaa-mjuutazii...
> /plaI le.g@U fin.iz vA:k gom ta.da dem gom fa.zin
>mju:ta:mju:ta.zi:/
> PLU language PAST talk together then them together FUT change-change
> Languages spoken together change one another.
>
> = ! gw3rra leg0set kaka! ! riis3rva, saIlva, riikuu, sk0pa-g0mii aen
>riizijkl0! =
> (Fight Linguistic Waste! Save, Salvage, Recover, Scavenge and
>Recycle!)
>
> >>To have another language is to possess a second soul.
>
> >>-- Charlemagne
>
>
> en g0miileg0:
>
>= hava num3r duo leg0kit... tada : hava num3r duo breinii. =
>
>have number two language, ta-da, have number two brainie.
>
>
> "One mind plus one mind equals a Third Mind." - William S. Burroughs
>
> = 0n0 menta plaaz 0n0 menta... tada : Num3r Trii0 Menta. =
>
>
> = diff3rrenzii ent3ra kak0 aen mjuuzika semii-tem paen en juu kaepii.
>=
>
> (Difference between noise and music semi-time all in you head)
>
> {Sometimes the difference between noise and music is all in your head}
>
>
> - ? juu nii0 kogn0 g0miileg0, laa?
> (You now know/think GomiLego, eh?)
>
> - ! ij-ij! mii nii0 vaak g0miileg0 mega bon. ? kogn0? nae non-bon.
> (Aye-aye!, me now speak GomiLego very good. Know/think? No non-good.)
>
> - ! g0miileg0 n0 bruut0 leg0set!
> (Gomilego is not an ugly language)
> - ! ! ij-ij --- mii mega-tem raadzj'r dhat!!
> (Aye-Aye, me big-time rodger that!)
>
>
> - ? teka hava juu d0m-viida ... laa?
> (Building have you home-life, eh?)
>
> - mii kama mii finiz tem-njuumii biz pod en sabii g0daun en Varanasi.
> (Me desire me PsT time-money have pod in beautiful-old godown in
>Varanasi.)
> {I wish I had rented a room in an old, beautiful warehouse in
>Varanasi.}
>
> _hava_ is inalienable possession - possession of your body, personal
>belongings, your soul, etc.
> _biz_ is alienable possession - possession of goods, things you stole,
>property, etc.
> (_biznizz_ "business", _biz-izm0_ "capitalism")
>
> = plij zen0-dzjen, sijb3r-mekkaan0, aen p0sii-dzjen gom hava 0n0 m0n0 -
>
>dem kreazii plij biiz'rra leg0set k0nexii. = --- Jasia Reichardt
>
>
>PLU xeno-gen, cyber-machine, and poetry-gen together have one thing -
>
>they create PLU bizarre language-plex connexion. --- Jasia Reichardt
>
>
>"One thing foreigners, computers, and poets have in common
>
>is that they make unexpected linguistic associations." --- Jasia Reichardt
>
>
>
> - plij h0mii-noid aezzi plij zoid, s0, aen uz paen viida en dzjiia...
>uz
>
>paen plii dzjiia-dzjen.
>
>
> Human-noids [are] animals, too, and we all live in/on [Gaia+geo]. We
>all
>
>gia-gen [earthlings].
>
>
>
>
>Hanuman Zhang, 3-Toed-Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist ;)
>
>"the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69}
>
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>
> "One thing foreigners, computers, and poets have in common
>is that they make unexpected linguistic associations." --- Jasia Reichardt
>
> "There is no reason for the poet to be limited to words, and in fact
>the
>poet is most poetic when inventing languages. Hence the concept of the poet
>as 'language designer'." --- O. B. Hardison, Jr.
>
>"At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will
>probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages." - Cullen
>Murphy
>in _Atlantic Monthly_ (October, 1995)
>
>"La poésie date d' aujour d'hui." (Poetry dates from today)
>"La poésie est en jeu." (Poetry is in play)
> --- Blaise Cendrars
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