Re: All-verb (was: Look ma, No verbs!)
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Date: | Sunday, April 18, 1999, 12:36 |
Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 17/04/99 19:59:01 , Ray a =E9crit :
<< Aw, ain't there anything original a poor conlanger can do? ;) >>
All conlangers - however poor they are - achieve schemes 100 times more=20
interesting than 'allnoun/allverb' paroxistic poncifs, but... one must=20
earnestly read each line of each of their web page to realize that. Sometime=
s=20
I yawn reading a boring foreword - of the "this is my conlang, it's no verbs=
,=20
can you believe that, I've got 87 cases instead, and I'm going to list them=20
all below, fasten your belt please" kind -, then discover two pages after=20
that the syntax is just incredibly refined and the vocabulary poetic. It=20
seems like conlangers are poets who try to rationalize their extasis.=20
Technicians of glossolalia.
Mathias.