Re: Introduction and sandhi scripting question.

Hi!

Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Dirk Elzinga writes:
>
>> On 7/4/06, Edgard Bikelis wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>> http://ausonia.parnassum.org/grammar_0.3.9.3.pdf
>>>
>> ...
>>
>> I looked at the PDF, and I must say that I find the physical
>> appearance of the description to be quite pleasing. ...
>>
>
> Me too.  The paragraph separators, known from medieval writings, look
> funny in a computer generated file.  Very nice!
>
> I also like the grammar itself.  Could you elaborate how you designed
> it?  What are the goals?
>
> **Henrik
>
>
    Thank you : ). It is a shame that I didn't find any version of this
pilcrow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow) sufficiently exotic for
my taste. I wanted something like a <Q> with its tail going far between
the lines. I think I saw one like this on Gutenberg's Bible. It is worth
doing myself by hand...

    Hm, the Aristotelian first cause for this grammar came in 2002, when
I started thinking about good and evil, and everything between. Since
then I am thinking about a 'conuniverse', while reading quite a few
books about classical Philosophy, because I needed a philosophical
system first. I started by being Platonic, now I'm presocratic and a
little Vedic ; ). Right now I have this system almost done, an Universe,
gods, a sketchy solar system, a world, roughly its fauna, flora and
climate, and this much of a language.

    This grammar I wrote for teaching myself. I started last year, after
I found, by pure chance, Buck's Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the
Principle Indo-European Languages, while searching for a Latin
dictionary on the library. Since then I am so impressed by
Proto-Indo-European that some friends are even  concerned if it is
healthy ; ). But I plan creating at least another one, maybe inspired in
ancient Egyptian. Or just working on Ausonian daughter languages...

    I plan writing at least a book about it, having pieces of Ausonian
in native writing in it. I am not sure it is a reasonable thing to do,
given that it would be demanding too much of my dear readers, but I at
least would like reading a large book demanding every idle neuron
around. Part of it is the empty feeling after I finished reading LoTR,
never recovered.

    Anyway, it is quite refreshing to know somebody likes it. I am so
perfectionist that sometimes I feel I would do better planting rice on
my backyard ; ).


Edgard scripsit.

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