Re: Uber newbie-conlanger conlang

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From: Jonathan Chang <zhang23@...>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:35:31 -0800
Subject: Re: Uber newbie-conlanger conlang
To: saizai@saizai.com


on 3/15/05 1:36 AM, Sai Emrys at saizai@GMAIL.COM wrote:

> One of the people in my class is doing a conlang that, in the
> conculture, is meant to be a somewhat kludgy conlang.
>
> If you think of this a bit, what this means is essentially one of the
> goals is to be as much like a newbie's conlanger as possible... but
> more so. Almost, one could say, a parody thereof?
>
> So: Advice? What would you want to do to not grow out of, but *build
> upon* all those newbie's mistakes you've made?
>
> (This is presumably somewhat different than merely the opposite of the
> "naturalism" goal, though that's a good starting point.)
>
> FWIW, the setting is post-apocalyptic California.
>
> - Sai
   Ahhh1 A "mangalang"! My conlang gomilego is somewhat similar but is more
serious than a "parody" --- a tongue-1/2-in-cheek "take" on auxlangs (the
other 1/2 is a serious extrapolation of slang).

   Gwerra lego-set morta! Creo lego-set!
   {Fight word-set(s) death! Create word-set(s)!}
   "Fight language extinction! Invent [a] language (s)!"

--

Hanuman Zhang, MangaLanger

    Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars
leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode,
orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics
warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap...

"Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_