Re: Retranslation

You have a point here, David: we're not numerous enough to fight with each
other. there is a great bunch of auxlangers on this list. my own artlang is an
"auxlang ad absurdo". still i wouldn't like to be mistaken for an auxlanger:
trying to proselyte one's private lang, claiming it's a better device to
communicate or whatever is something rather troubling IMHO to put it mildly. my
favourite natlang is a rather artificial one that proves that auxlangers can
succeed with the help of a dictatorial government, guns and blackboards.
however, i enjoy reading quarrels between auxlangers. their fights about
mandatory cases, genders, derivations and "international" vocabulary are
hilarious. i think "our" Czhang could help them. let me see...

Interauxlang Lesson One -- Food

Text:
Mi mawsklik gotu bilding mikdanol. Yu-mi mikdanol bigmakset gudgud. Hapitaym!
Burp.

New Vocabulary:
food : bigmak
restaurant : bilding mikdanol
to drink: kok (dialectal variant: pepsi)
pick, choose : klik, mawsklik
cheers! : burp

Exercise:
Yu bakmel oke ziskweshon:
Yu no kompyut gotumikdanol lanstaym?
Wat yu wana kok?

Erm, am i off-topic again? And does anybody here know about an auxlang thread
discussing verbal voices?
On the other hand, i love the old, quaint "philosophical" and "encyclopedic"
invented languages--how would you call them: philangs? sophlangs?--i made Tunu
after reading about Suma, Ro and the like. Someone has to keep the tradition
alive--as Clint put it in a recent post conlanging is all about "stubborness",
isn't it?

David Starner <starner@...> wrote:
>>>
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 02:02:01PM -0500, J Y S Czhang wrote:
>     ::turns to the newbies on the list, effects an explanatory
> tongue-in-cheek tone:: Semi-officially, AuxLangers and nearly all
> non-linguistic issues related to AuxLangs are not smiled upon fondly on this
> list. Some of us have had verrrrry baaad experiences with AuxLangers and
> AuxLangers ;)
>     On this list, calling anyone an _AuxLanger_ or implying one is of that
> particular mindset is/are "fighting words" :)  :P  :P~
Why, yes, every small group has to turn in upon itself. They aren't
_true_ conlangers, and everything they do is eeeevil.
--
David Starner / Ð"авид СÑ,аÑ?нэÑ? - starner@okstate.edu
What we've got is a blue-light special on truth. It's the hottest thing
with the youth. -- Information Society, "Peace and Love, Inc."
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Mathias
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