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

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.