Re: research note on Pwxx (draft)

Jörg Rhiemeier said:
>
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:20:25 -0500,
> "Mark P. Line" <mark@...> wrote:
>
>> New project. Please feel free to check out
>>
>>     http://www.polymathix.com/PwxxMFN.html
>>
>> at your leisure.
>
> Nice!
Thanks.


> One of far too few non-human conlangs that don't resemble
> a human language.
I guess I should start applying for grants on speculative exolinguistics.
We need to be ready when the time comes.....


> Are the "Greys" who speak this language the same "Greys" that we know from
> UFO mythology?
Yes.


> In this case, the phonology would indeed fit, as those Greys are sometimes
> described as uttering hissing noises.
Oh my, now isn't that a coincidence. :)


> Keep it up!  I'd like to see more of Pwxx.
Thanks, you will. I'll be fleshing out the mood/focus/negation report as
well as writing a number of other Research Notes on the language.
Eventually, everything will get poured into a grammatical sketch using a
standard functional outline. I also want to try some formant synthesis of
example utterances.

As with my other current artlangs, this one is a contract job (so to
speak) for one of my wife's fiction/RPG projects. One of the other
languages for this particular conworld is going to be a new experience for
me because its primary mode of expression is manual. I'm exploring the
linguistics of human sign natlangs as we, umm, speak.


-- Mark

Dept. of Exolinguistics
Polymathix
San Antonio, TX

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