Re: New Language

Gressett, David wrote:

> Garrett Wrote:
> [
> Hello everyone, I am creating a new language called Malat. It is
> intended to be the most logical language ever created.
> [snip]
>  Check it out at http://www.metro.net/3jones/malat/
> . I'd greatly appreciate any comments or ideas that you have.
> ]
>
> You have a pretty elegant system covering simple causuality, but what about
> complex causuality? Where any single event is caused by a number of factors
> with different weights, and any single event influences other events as a
> single factor itself?
>
> Obviously every simple causual system is a simplification of a a complex
> causual system, so we are constantly missing details (and therefore
> accuracy) the more we leave out relevant factors. Might I propose a system
> where factors and there influence can by efficiently described? On second
> thought, it would be even more interesting to see how you would extend your
> grammar to encode more sophisticated causual systems.
That's a very good observation... as of now I haven't thought of how to handle
the complex causes/effects, but I will conjure up a way to handle it.

> Are you going to distinguish between different classes of events : singular
> (point) events, activities, constants (like gravity causing attraction), etc
> etc. ?
Yes, I plan to differentiate between a singular event, a habit/activity, and a
professional activity. I hadn't thought of the constants one, though.

> As the ULTIMATE logical language, how about disamiguating tense and aspect
> more with qualifiers, so that instead of "a long time ago - nearing
> completion" more specific terms can be easily specified as part of the
> grammar such as "centuries ago - complete within years" where any level of
> plurality is limited on a base 10 scale ( in other words, "centuries ago"
> denotes up to 9 centuries, and "within years" denotes up to 9 years ).
Hmm, that's an interesting idea, but I'd like to know how to integrate that
simply and without getting the modifiers too long and complex. If it was too
specific the ideas would prolly have to become seperate words.

> As a fan of Rick Morneau's monograph myself, I am pleased to see another
> conlang following his designs. Looks like it has provided a very rich pantry
> for you to cook from.
>
> David Gressett


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-Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

-Garrett Jones aka Alkaline
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Malat - http://www.metro.net/3jones/malat/