Re: research note on Pwxx (draft)

Jörg Rhiemeier said:
> "Mark P. Line" <mark@...> wrote:
>>
>> I guess I should start applying for grants on speculative
>> exolinguistics.
>> We need to be ready when the time comes.....
>
> I think whatever we may speculate about what languages of alien
> intelligences could be like, when they really show up, what we
> may see probably goes beyond our speculations.

True, but it doesn't hurt to push the envelope as far as we can anyway.

Stay tuned for my Research Note on the neurocognitive linguistics of
cetacean communication........


>> > Are the "Greys" who speak this language the same "Greys" that we know
>> from
>> > UFO mythology?
>>
>> Yes.
>
> I guessed that.  Where do you imagine them to hail from?  Zeta-2
> Reticuli?
My wife's in charge of the backstory. I wouldn't be surprised if she
decided to go with that, umm, consensus view...


>> As with my other current artlangs, this one is a contract job (so to
>> speak) for one of my wife's fiction/RPG projects.
>
> Is there anything sufficiently developed to present on CONLANG?
> I'm curious.
Not at the moment. As I mentioned elsewhere a week or two ago, I'm
revisiting part of the phonology and all of the morphosyntax of the four
Salsheg languages, and there are three additional languages needed for
that conworld. I'll be putting stuff on the Web as it stabilizes (probably
on our new RPG site, so as not to scare the natives visiting the
Polymathix site).

The work so far on the other languages of the Pwxx world is even more
tenuous, so it'll probably be late in the year before anything on those
hits the Web.


>> 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.
>
> Sign languages are something I haven't explored yet, either.
I had some brief exposure long ago when the Earth was still cooling, but
that was in primate ethology. (FWIW, I had a falling out with those folks
because I couldn't convince them not to infer emotional states from
observed facial gestures in chimpanzees (naively based on seemingly
similar gestures and their emotive concomitants in humans) without some
kind of independent control.)

I've only recently started getting some materials together again on manual
linguistics.


-- Mark