Big 6, Moser's Acadon, _e mi Caos Pidgin_ [was Re: Bigbabytalk -a primitive language for AI

In a message dated 2000:09:09 9:43:51 PM, dawier@YAHOO.COM quotes me then
writes:

>>     I feel the same way - in a fashion,... that's why I am making
>> Caos Pidgin
>> based on Italo-Spanish-like lexifying.
> >    Italian and Spanish at least have better phonemic spellings than
> >English
> >& is IMHO more appealling aesthetically to my sensibilities.
>I agree.  And this sounds a lot like my Big Six project, which I may
>end up abandoning since, well, I'm just not interested anymore; I've
>grown very cynical about IAL's.  I still prefer the idea of a "global
>pidgin", and I know there are already better projects much further in
>development than my Big Six.
>
    Aw ... I'd like to see what you did do in Big 6, just outta curiosity.
& I am not fond of IALs like I was when I was into Glosa (about 3-5 yrs ago).
After reading more on languages, I realized how idealistically unreal the
whole idea becomes. Unfortunately, it seems like the use of English &
mutations thereof will become become more & more common (I blame the spread
of the English virus mainly on the current "prestige," socio-economic power &
Pop Culture mass media ...)

>Leo Moser, a member of AUXLANG (at least when I was there), has a
>database of words from the major languages.  I forgot what it's called,
>"World Vocabulary" or something?  Or am I thinking of Bislama?
>
    Acadon, I believe.

>Now, explain what Chaos Pidgin is if you don't mind...
>
    Caos Pidgin is mainly:

    * a ConLang for my own self-education into pidgin/creole linguistics (&
linguistics in general)

    * a creative experiment of creating a poetic ConLang that pays _hommage_
to both the Italian Futurists and to the elliptical language/syntax of
Taoist-influenced Classical Chinese poetry (as well as much contemporary
poetry influenced by the Futurists and Dadaists)

    * a deliberate appropriation/use/abuse of a lot of sound-symbolism
(onomatopoeia)

    * an attempt to create a paraculturalist language - to shape a language
around a different set of cultural paradigms (i.e. _musica_  - a
culturally-loaded word - is in Caos Pidgin, but _soni-creazi_
<sound-creation> & _neo-creazi-lila_ <new-creation-divineplay> are in the
Caos Pidgin paraculturalist paradigm... also words like _astronomia_ &
_geologia_ are re-cast in a more "precise," noun-compound like _cosmo-cienza_
<cosmos-science> & _ Gaia-cienza_ <Gaia-science>... etcetra...)

    * an aesthetic creation with an "applied science fiction attitude"

    I chose mostly Italian and Spanish roots for Caos Pidgin for the reasons
above besides the fact that they are 2 of the most phonemic languages in
EuroAmerican sphere.
    Words that have no equivalent in Italian or Spanish will come from
certain other languages (esp'ly Japanese onomatopoeia _PiCaCHu_, Japanese
words concerning aesthetic qualities -  _sabi_ and _wabi_ and certain
modified Sanskrit words _lila_).

    I am trying to make Caos Pidgin a simple pidgin/creole-like language to
use, but with an extremely expanded/expandable lexicon.

    czHANg

<< One thing foreigners, computers, & poets have in common is that they make
unexpected linguistic associations. >>
    * Jasia Reichardt
    - creative cyberneticist *

"It would be ironic if the answer to Babel
were pidgin and not Pentecost."
- George Steiner,  _After Babel:
  Aspects of Language & Translation_