Re: The Art of Language

on 1/3/07 2:58 PM, Pablo Flores at pablodavidflores@GMAIL.COM wrote:

> Hi! I've been off this list for ages, but I recognize a few old-time
> members. You may remember me from my "How To Create A Language" tutorial. I
> haven't done any conlanging since I left and I'm not sure I can resume that,
> but I wanted to let you know that I'm starting a language creation
> course<http://artoflanguage.blogspot.com/>in blog format, using
> material from "How To..." and just rambling on about
> my not-so-secret vice.
Hiya Pablo!

LTNS... thanx for the heads up & blog plug.

Just when I needed some re-charging on my con-pidgin...

Again plenti tanx...


--

Hanuman Zhang, MangaLanger


     Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars
leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode,
orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics
warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap...


"Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_

                "We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes,
                to find each other." - Jose Saramago