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Re: New Language

From:Mathias M. Lassailly <lassailly@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 18, 1998, 18:50
Didier wrote :
Garrett wrote:
> > > Hello everyone, I am creating a new language called Malat. It is > > intended to be the most logical language ever created. > > That's a rather presomptuous aim, don't you think? I have always > wondered what people meant by *logical* languages (are there any > *illogical* languages, by the way?), and as a matter of facts, > many so-called logical langs often show lots of illogicalities, > whereas artlangs are sometimes paradoxically much more regular > and logical... >
Hey, Didier, don't be too hard on Garrett. There's nothing wrong in making the language one thinks most logical to one's own standards :-) Cause/effect may be declined in many different ways such as a fine tuning from causality to function : causality : I make him grind; finality : He mills cereal to feed his children; transformation : The mill grinds cereal into flour; attribution : The woman gives birth to a child function : The mills (*mills) cereal etc. There are many other cause/effect relations that other non-linguist conlangers like me still ignore. Maybe Garret may point some interesting ones. Mathias ----- See the original message at http://www.egroups.com/list/conlang/?start=18543