Muke Tever wrote:
> Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
>
>> How kludgy do you want it to be? I mean, I can go back as far as my
>> pubescent days, with absolutely NO knowledge of linguistics. Is the
>> kludgy
>> conlang by someone who's had a taste of other conlangs? Or is he a
>> conlang
>> VIRGIN?
>
> [schnipf]
>
> Another thing I havnt seen mentioned here yet is implausibly compact
> semantics,
> as for example in _Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy_
I wouldn't say that's so much a feature of newbie conlanging as comedy
conlanging.