Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct

Nicole pa tok>>
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>> Different mathematic operations have certain pictures in my head,
>> for example, multiplication is drawing a diagonal line; I view a year
>> (or a month, week, etc) as a sort of loop...Lots of things have their
>> own pictures.
Amanda em tok>
>Now that sounds really neat.  Wish I had that.
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>A year for me is always laid out with winter to the bottom, spring to the
>right, summer above and fall to the west.  It's counterclockwise.  I don't
>know why; I'm not in the southern hemisphere or anything.  Everytime I see
>a picture of the Wheel of the Year, it goes the wrong way.
>
>Sometimes I think I'm seeing it as a big clock that I'm inside, thus
>seeing it from behind, which would explain the direction.
>
>Amanda
Thanks so much for sharing these inner perceptions, they are what I was
hoping for when I raised questions in the first Conlang Instinct post.
I'm currently trying to expand the vector tense system so that it can
directly represent these kinds of natural symbolizations; it looks
possible.  Your year map makes a lot of sense as a view of the earth's
annual orbital revolution around the sun seen from the north ecliptic
pole. The sequence is correct and the earth does revolve annually in
its orbit counterclockwise viewed from the North Ecliptic Pole; which
is on an axis through the sun and geometrically normal to the plane of
the planets' revolution around the sun.  The overlay of compass
directions doesn't work out for me, at least not yet.

Thanks also for the color information, it has me thinking about the
concept "essence", or what is essential about a concept. In NGL we have
a suffix -xi and also another -ci, -xi allows the carrying across of
color or any other properties chosen as a part of a concept, -ci might
not. But if the synesthetes here wanted to define color as an essential
part of number in NGL, then it would be -ci. In other words,
"number-ci" number-essence, would have to include color. And
"number-xi" could be defined with or without color. Or "number-ci" could
be colorless number and "number-xi" could be with color.

It is not only languages that need to be translated one into another
but each person seems to be a language onto wo-self. That has been my
experience in every close relationship.

Truly,
Jerry