Re: Aesthetics

Aue!

On 10/17/07, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Edgard Bikelis wrote:

(snip)


> Meanwhile, I had an idea about a special kind of syntax that is
> parsable with a context-free parser, which I eventually added to S11,
> and which also influenced the design of the font, because some
> morpho-phonological processes were marked.

I'm very fond of that kind of technological thing. I'm gathering courage to
generate every form of every noun and verb, and then link it to my texts,
and who knows what more. But... why a parseable syntax? I saw that in
programming, but a human language is quite another thing.

(snip)


> I even thought about removing S11 from my website, but that would be
> work, too, and it does have a fancy romanisation and sound system.
> ;-)

It's sound system seems very baroque... I like baroque : ). And the
romanisation too, despite of not having any serif font to use it. I just
remembered an old thread about serifs too, and if my memory is still useful
for something : ), you said serifs are not a concern. Anyway...

So, that's what I call a mess.  Three projects aiming at different
> parts of an engelang, and none functional.
>
> The subsequent conlangs S17 (Þrjótrunn) and S25 (Terkunan), my first
> aposteriori langs, worked out very well so far, and I did write down
> design goals (or better: they started as design goals).  They worked
> so well that I am currently not in the mood to go back to the
> above-mentioned mess.  I still consider everything between S11 and S25
> 'active' (those are three to six projects, depending on how you count
> the mess), maybe I'll even get back to S9 (Da Mätz se Base) or S7
> (Qþyn|gài) one day -- who knows, both have their weaknesses I might
> want to try to fix.

I have just one language, for two years or so, and thinking about creating
another is so hard... divorcing from all I already created, to build
everything again, and different. That's brave... and 25 times seems quite a
feat ; ).

**Henrik
>
Edgard.

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