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Re: Uber newbie-conlanger conlang

From:Muke Tever <hotblack@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 16, 2005, 23:03
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_: << The other kids at school nicknamed him Ix, which in the language of Betelgeuse Five translates as "boy who is not able satisfactorily to explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven." >> This may be less common among those developing full languages than those only building, say, slang, or a naming language. *Muke! -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/

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