Re: Conlang game idea

On Sunday 23 February 2003 10:25 am, Joseph Fatula wrote:
> From: "Joe" <joe@...>
> Subject: Re: Conlang game idea
>
> > I'm interested in that too.  I'll take part in both, if you want...
> >
> > but why does it have to be a pidgin?  I'd like a fully fledged
> > language...
>
> Well, it would start out as something of a pidgin, but it could become more
> of a language over time.  This sort of mix is the way pidgins start, and if
> extended, they can become creoles, whole languages.
>
> So if you'd like to have this little pidgin-dialog game, let's get started.
> We'll run it via private e-mail, perhaps a message a day or so, and then we
> can post any good stuff to the list.
>
> The rules are simple - hopefully:
>
> All that I have to work on are your imaginary actions and facial
> expressions (in parentheses) and what you say [in brackets].  We'll use
> X-SAMPA for IPA transcription until we've agreed on an orthography.  You
> can make up whatever words you like, so long as they're not from English.
> Concrete nouns should be easy, as you just have to point at one (if it's
> close at hand) or draw a picture of one.
>
> For situations, we could imagine that we are two merchants trying to trade
> goods, or something like that.
>
> Our "native" tongues do not share a writing system, or they are both
> written in the Roman alphabet, not that it'll be a major concern.  I think
> I'll use one of my conlangs as the native language of my persona, feel free
> to use one of yours.
I think I'll make a new one for the purposes of this excercise.  I can
transplant it into my world sometime, maybe as the eastern neighbours...

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