Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 3, 1999, 19:38 |
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On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 21:52:03 CST "J. Barefoot" <ataiyu@...>
writes:
> That is so interesting! I have thought for a while that my
> perception of
> English may be "non-standard but fully functional." Perhaps we
> should ask a
> new "lefthand/righthand/goatee/hair color/sexual orientation"
> question: What
> is your personal writing style like in your native language? Does
> it ever
> get you into trouble, i.e., do pedantic proofreaders ever give you
> grief
> about perfectly grammatical sentences that run to five clauses or
> more?
.
Well, my favorite punctuation mark in my writings seems to be the dash.
A few english teachers i've had have told me to use periods or semicolons
instead, but i like the look of the "-" for breaking up thoughts. That's
why Rokbeigalmki has two pause marks, a {~} that works like a comma, a
short pause, and a {-} that is a longer pause. It's written as if you
were speaking. I write like i was speaking, although i've found that in
poetry, there are some poems that are better read, some that are better
spoken, and some that are better thought.
> for the intellect to discover them. Has anyone else had expereinces
> like
> this?
.
I made the words for "this" and "that" _dhaz_ and _dhu_, extended the
_-az/-u_ ending to other words like "here/there", and "now/then", and
only afterwards realized that they coincided with the pronouns _az_ "i"
and _uz_ "it", giving the meaning of "right here by me" vs. "over there
by that thing".
-Stephen (Steg)
"eze-guvdhab wa'hrikh-a tze / "zhoutzii wa'esh," i eze-mwe."
> Jennifer
> making a renewed effort to consciously develop her idiolect away
> from
> standard English
>
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