Re: Readability of scrambled text
| From: | Ian Spackman <ianspackman@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 10:02 |
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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