Re: Uber newbie-conlanger conlang

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.


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