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

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

Epiq:
http://steen.free.fr/relay10/epiq.html

In particular, look at the Rodlox's smooth translation of his own
text, and my smooth translation of my translation of his text.

But, yes, having no word order is no problem.   My first conlang
had no word order, and there's *allegedly* a language in a Australia
that doesn't even have a preferential word order.   What matters is
whether or not all the arguments are marked.

-David
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