goomeelegoo (wasRe: Interjections)

In a message dated 2004:02:01 03:25:36 PM, elemtilas@YAHOO.COM writes:

>[...]There is an old Conlang
>T-shirt project that you may not be familiar
>with, namely, to translate the phrase "Fight
>Language Death: Invent a Language!" and put it on
>a T-shirt. That was eventually done (and there
>was much rejoicing!), and provided inspiration
>for our Wiley Oriental Gentleman to give it a
>GomiLego spin. To wit: " GomiLego is a futuristic
>polyglot-lexifier creole "mesolect"/"mixed
>language." Some of the _main_ contributing
>polyglot-lexifiers are English; various Romance
>languages like Italian, French, Spanish;
>Sanskrit; German; Dutch;
>Japanese; "Romanized" Chinese; ISV (International
>Scientific Vocabulary)
>Greco-Latin roots and "technocultural" slang.
>    Like many creoles, much of GomiLego's lexemes
>are highly "mutated" from the original lexemes. "
    goomeelegoo has undergone a Spelling Reform, ... hehe...
"blame" it on the lingua-mangling Dutch, French and Nordics on the list,
LOL...

>To the various "Romance languages" he could add
>my own Kerno, which has contributed the GomiLego
>word 'riipong' (<repong) meaning fix up. I
>consider it a solemn honour when a fellow
>conlanger sees fit to borrow one my poor
>language's words into his own.
    It's _reepong_ now.

>Kerno itself is a voracious borrower, saver,
>salvager, recoverer, scavenger and
>recycler - but is restricted to taking only from
>langauges (constructed or real) that inhabit its
>alternate history timeline. I'm not sure if
>GomiLego is *there* or not.
    ::points to monkeybraincase:: it's inna here...


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