Re: Relexes Pt. 1: Defence

Quoting Greg <greg.johnstons@...>:

> What I meant was that they were only unimpressive when in ones native
> tongue. Of course, there are ways to go above and beyond this.
OK. I still think no-one as any reason to be at all impressed if I were to do
a relex of English.

And re: the proper meaning of "relex", I've always seen the retention of the
parent lang's grammar as the important thing; surely many "naive relexes" have
sported a few words with no exact equivalent in the parent language's lexicon,
included just because the creator felt is was nifty to have a word for that
concept.

                                                      Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Andreas Johansson
> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 12:52 PM
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Subject: Re: Relexes Pt. 1: Defence
>
> Quoting Greg <greg.johnstons@...>:
>
> > Relexes are only less than could be accomplished when they are using the
> > grammar of one's native tongue.
>
> Are you saying that if I relexed English, it would be as accomplished as
> could
> be asked for? If so, I beg to differ; I can do much better, or at the very
> least I want to believe so!
>
>                                                       Andreas
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU] On
> > Behalf Of Roger Mills
> > Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 5:44 PM
> > To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> > Subject: Re: Relexes Pt. 1: Defence
> >
> > Gary Shannon wrote:
> >
> > > In the final analysis it might be difficult to find a
> > > conglang that is not a relex of SOME language, whether
> > > Latin, English, or Urdu.  Is there really such a thing
> > > as a novel grammar?
> >
> > I think many of us would say:  H.S.Teoh's Ebisedian (he hasn't been
> posting
> > much lately)
> >
> > Sylvia Sotomayor's Kelen (all-noun, sort-of) doesn't IMO resemble any
> > natlang
> >
>

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