Re: An Idea (Hopefully Non-offensive)

In a message dated 4/25/01 12:15:31 PM, rikroots@ENTERPRISE.NET writes:

<< Gevey - a language for use in a science fiction novel which will
probably never get written, has taken over 25 years, and still I am
tampering with the basics.
 >>

    All right, look.  I'm telling you, I did create a language (my first) in
about two months.  The final version of the grammar I had after about two
weeks.  And, at end, I wrote a thirty page story in it.  Now all I do is
expand the vocabulary, or add a new infix (it's a triconsonantal root
language).  So far, no one has come out and laughed at my language, or even
criticized.  Actually, most people have kind of ignored it.  Oh well.  I do
things fast in my world.  I decided to rewrite the Decameron with 10 stuffed
animals as the seven women and three men while integrating two major pieces
of literature into each story, and I had 80 pages done in a week (I started
the day I decided to do it, not to mention reading the first day).  This all
is not to brag, but to say that not only can it be done, but it can be done
by anyone.  Think about how much time is in a day!  Of course, for those of
you who have jobs and real lives (I'm merely a college student), I can
understand that there will be much, much less time at your disposal.  But
still, this is two months!  I'd written over half of my first novel in two
months!  But, I suppose that doesn't compare.
    I'd also like to reiterate my point that when a think of a universal
auxilliary language, I envision one that doesn't borrow any words from any
language on Earth.  I'd want everyone on Earth to have to go through the same
experience learning it.  I imagine if one were finding words from twenty or
so different languages and changing them accordingly, that that would take
some time.  But all you need are some example words: transitive verbs,
intransitive verbs, ditransitive verbs, active human nouns, passive human
nouns, active instrument nouns, passive instrument nouns, natural adjectives,
and so on and so forth.  I contend that it can't be that hard.  Yet, this was
only an idea, because I have such little money that I like to get any where I
can.  I've already been disappointed that the short story contest I won last
year I lost this year (merely got published.  How pathetic!), so that's 100
fewer dollars I'm going to have over the summer.  So, do what you will.

-David