Re: Lin: clauses - Part 1.

In a message dated 4/14/02 12.45.24 PM, ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes:

>I can assure you that yours isn't the only brain stunned by the "complex
>baroqueness of the deceptively simple Lin".
christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR writes:

>Indeed not!

    Ah, that is quite comforting to know that I am not alone ;)

>One of things I like about Lin, however, is that it is so refreshingly
>different from the euroclonic conlangs which, I suppose inevitably, one
>meets most often.  It's a pity IMO that R. Srikanth (aka Skrintha) is no
>longer AFAIK on this list; I find it quite enlightening to get input from
>those who come from outside the western Amero-European tradition.
christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR writes:

>Me too. There's nothing nicer and more refreshing than someone whose first
>language is not Indo-European :)) (or Indo-European but different from
>the Greco-Latino-Germanic center :)) ).
romilly@EGL.NET writes:

>Very true.
 jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM writes re: "euroclonic conlangs":

>This charming neologism makes me think of all the paired neurological
>words in -tonic and -clonic, meaning respectively "tensed" and "twitching".
>So if Esperanto is a euroclonic language, what would a eurotonic language
>be, or be like?
    What about Frater (Lingua Sistemfrater) created by Pham Xuan Thai in
Vietnam circa 1957 & Frater2 - an improved version created by IIRC Steve
Bartlett(?) ?  They may look & smell like Euroclones, but seem more
analytical/isolating than most Euroclones and the phonology more-or-less
intriguingly pidgin/creole-like.

    OBCONLANG: with my rough-sketch of my conlang "callipoeia" <see below>, I
am trying to make use of some aspects of pidgin/creole syntax (esp'ly the TMA
marking system - but using "full words", many from musical terminology) with
GrecoPolyglot word-roots in a _nice_ VSO word-order.  ::so happy, so happy
with callipoeia... dancing 'round the room like mad a la Snoopy::

Hanuman Zhang

    -----------~§~-----------
en callipoeia:
    ¡ atzelarando gwarraum uia verziz panmorda ex lexiplex!
¡ forteizmo adhoc poeiaum uia polilexiplex ex amoebamutando continaum : aum!

trans-litteral-slice-ation into English:
    accelerando war you-me against all-death of language(s)!
fortissimo ad hoc create you-me language[s] of change-mutation continuous,
om!

    ¿ cogno-quo poli-u ex callipoeia barbari-picto artigene, la?