"Christian Thalmann" <cinga@...> wrote:
> I like Muke's "nonlanger". Natlanger, while a sensible construction,
> still feels too active to me. Natlanging implies the creation of
> natlangs, which makes no sense.
Modern Hebrew.
18th century prescriptivist English.
> On second thought, a natlanger could be someone who shows great
> interest in natlangs and learns several of them. A distant cousin
> of the conlanger, so to speak.
The term is "polyglot".
"Bryan Parry" <bajparry@...> wrote:
> We could just call em 'humans' *rolls eyes* ;)
>
> How about "Clangers".
No, "Clangers" are pink mice who speak tonal Morse code.
"Sally Caves" <scaves@...> wrote:
> Are you referring to the (I think fairly
> recent) psychiatric term "clanging," an employment of language based on
> phonic connections rather than semantic ones--common example: "what do you
> think of history?" "It's a mystery"--and often considered pathological if
> that is one's only way of speaking or making connections?
A tendency toward "clang association", sometimes spelled "klang
association", often shows up in people with schizophrenia.
But after I've tried unsuccessfully to learn to rhyme in real time
("freestyling" as practiced by Eminem and several other rap artists),
I'm almost thinking you need a touch of that in order to produce
some forms of verse.
--
Damian