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Re: Readability of scrambled text

From:Ian Spackman <ianspackman@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 10:02
At 03:24 16/09/03, Nokta Kanto <red5_2@...> wrote:

>There's clearly some potential for an interesting and bizarre (and >steganographic ;) conlang here. Each word would have a phonetic spelling, >but additional meaning is carried in their scrambling of letters. Maybe >vowels float to the head for emphasis, or the first two consonants switch >and migrate right in the genitive case. Maybe metaphor is expressed by >rearranging internal letters into different words... the possibilities are >endless! > >Any suggestions?
I jokingly proposed a language recently in which (inter alia) the plural of nouns is formed by sorting the word into alphabetical order. More seriously, I was vaguely considering a language in which a root is an unordered list of phonemes which are then sorted by different ordering rules inflectionally and/or derivationally. I haven't done anything with the idea yet, though. Ian