Re: Conlangs of mischief (Was: Re: I'm back!)
From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
Date: | Friday, September 24, 2004, 6:27 |
Quoting "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:02:56PM +0200, Rodlox wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: H. S. Teoh <
> > To: <CONLANG@...>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:42 PM
> > Subject: Re: I'm back!
> [...]
> > > Darn, just when I thought Ebisédian was the cause of all mischief. :-P
> > > :-P
> >
> > there's a new compeditor to Ebis(e)dian....and that's Metes.
> > :)
>
> Alright, bring it on. Let's see what mischief Metes can cause that
> Ebisédian can't do worse. :-)
>
> I'll start: there is no distinction between 2nd and 3rd person in
> Ebisédian. This is wonderfully destructive in relays involving
> conversations (although we haven't had one like that yet---which may
> be a good thing, depending on your POV). Let's see Metes beat that.
> ;-)
That's positively sane compared to Iltârer, which I had the honour to try and
decipher in my first relay, which restricts the use of the 3rd person pronoun
to inanimates, replacing it with the 2nd person one for animates.
Andreas