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Re: Fictional auxlangs as artlangs (was Re: Poll)

From:deinx nxtxr <deinx.nxtxr@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 0:43
> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Philip Newton
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 19:01, deinx nxtxr > <deinx.nxtxr@...> wrote: > >> [snip] > >> >> Even Sindarin or Quenya could be > >> >> expanded to serve as an auxlang if UN so wished it (now
there's
> > an > >> >> interesting alternative history ;) > >> > > >> > I have seen such proposals at least for Quenya. > >> > >> That doesn't surprise me one bit. > > > > Me neither given that Klingon has been brought up too. The only > > problem with these are they are artistic creations so not really > > designed to be easy to learn and use. > > Heh. Wasn't Klingon even specifically designed to be "unnatural"
from
> the point of view of "common" Earth languages? (For example, in
having
> odd gaps in its phoneme grid, and an unusual word order; possibly > other things, too.)
Phonologically it only has one really odd phoneme. The only grammatical thing that I see being "different" are the verb prefixes that represent subject-object combinations. Beyond that I'd say the lexicon would be the worst part to learn because it's rooted in the fictional Klingon culture.

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