Re: A New Conlang For Your Consideration
| From: | John Quijada <jq_ithkuil@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Saturday, January 24, 2004, 18:29 |
|---|
Andrew Patterson wrote: I get the impression that the language seems quite
unlike any human language that I know of but I can see that it is based on
fairly simple principles. Clearly much of it does not fit into traditional
grammatical descriptions, but I get the feeling that there is nothing
INHERANTLY difficult about it. Could people learn to use it? Are you
thinking of writing a lessons section?
-----
I hadn't thought of a primer. I figured that no one (including myself)
would want to tackle the sheer volume of the morphological rules one would
have to keep in mind when speaking Ithkuil (e.g., verbs inflect for 22
categories), not to mention the very difficult-to-pronounce phonology. But
you are right that the language, despite its voluminous morphology, is
logically straightforward and poses no inherent difficulties grammatically-
speaking. A very astute observation. Thanks.
John Quijada