Re: Most developed conlang

In a message dated 4/20/2007 6:58:41 AM Central Daylight Time,
theiling@ABSINT.COM writes:


> Stevo writes:
> > ...  Yiklama has over 90,000 words, based on Wordnet definitions of
>
> It is 'Yiklamu'.
>
Yeah, I confuse the two all the time.  "u" is singular, "a" is plural.

> > English, yet there are lots of words it doesn't have.
> > Two of the most basic that it doesn't have are "I" and "you", for which it
> > uses "speaker" and "hearer/listener", which are patently wrong.
>
> Some chip on your shoulder today?
>
No, why do you ask?


> Would you say that Japanese 'sensei' is patently wrong for 'you'?
> What's the problem of using (idiomatic) nouns for pronouns?
>
The fact that the noun meanings are often contradictory to the intended
meaning of the pronoun.  For example, if I want to say "I hear you. Are you
speaking to me?", I'd have to say something like "The speaker hears the hearer.  Is
the hearer speaking to the speaker?".
"Who are you?" would become "Who is the hearer?".  Even worse, "Who is the
speaker?" could also mean "Who am I?".

The person "I" refers to is not always the speaker, nor is the person "you"
refers to always the hearer, and in fact, these two words switch their
references constantly in the course of a conversation.

Yiklamu is meant to have a maximally distinctive vocabulary, which is based
on English, which has distinct words for "I" and "YOU".  Leaving out these two
very important concepts was a mistake, IN MY OPINION.

> **Henrik
>
stevo
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