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From: "Nokta Kanto" <red5_2@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: Conlang Survey
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:27:01 -0800, Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...>
wrote:
>
> >I'm interested in this conlang survey that went around recently. What
I'm
> >wondering is what sorts of questions ought to be asked, specifically
those
> >that are multiple-choice type questions.
Actually, I'd like to just get a hold of a copy of the survey questions.
But I haven't found it so far, and wasn't around here when the survey was in
progress.
> I suppose you're looking for things that were not in the conlang survey
that
> was posted recently? I think the following things might be interesting to
> know; they are less about the grammatical structure and more about the
usage
> and design of language.
>
> Ways of marking important information: topic marker? Trigger language?
> Topic-first? Topic-last? Idiomatic constructions (It is the _dog_ that bla
> bla bla..)?
>
> In languages that have sample passages, is there a preference for many
small
> sentences or large sentences with lots of information in each?
>
> How is politeness/rudeness expressed: choice among synonymous words?
> Inflection/conjugation? Word order change? Extra phrases?
>
> Conlanging paradigm (may be more than one). Was the language made to be:
> Pidgin/creole? Alien? Bizarre? A priori or a posteriori? Speedtalk? Easily
> learnable? Unnaturally beautiful?
>
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> "Everyone's different, except me." --Noktakanto