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Re: Conlangs of mischief (Was: Re: I'm back!)

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Friday, September 24, 2004, 17:07
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:09:45PM -0400, David Peterson wrote:
> Teoh wrote: > > <<Keep 'em comin'! ;-)>> > > How about this: Metes appears to have no grammar or parts > of speech of any kind whatsoever. I was the one who had to > try to decipher the text. It also appears that all utterances are > just one long word (if I understood the hyphens right). Take > a look at the Metes text, and how I translated it: > > Metes: > http://steen.free.fr/relay10/metes.html
Very interesting. Metes seems to be incompletely described on the linked webpage, that does add a lot of obscurity to it. Nevertheless, its lax semantics makes it a worthy challenger to Ebisédian! :-) I like its impersonal, intemporal register. It's semantically very reminiscient of a conlang (or rather, freaklang) that I thought of making, but never got around to, which is set in a different universe from Ferochromon, but interacted with it on various occasions. Nevertheless, I'd like to see more explanation for how compound words are formed, for example. I think part of the reason it looks so odd is because there's little or no description of how this process actually works. (If a more detailed explanation has already been posted, I'm sorry, I've just come back to CONLANG, so please point me to it.) T -- Notwithstanding the eloquent discontent that you have just respectfully expressed at length against my verbal capabilities, I am afraid that I must unfortunately bring it to your attention that I am, in fact, NOT verbose.