Re: your conlang, please? (Rich Aunt gets hold of the Lunatic Survey)

On Thu, 1 Oct 1998 00:18:21 -0400 Sally Caves <scaves@...>
writes:
>...and how would you characterize it in fifty words more or less?
>You've been overwhelming me with wonderful revelations.  For those of
>you
>who have answered at length but not divulged, it would help me to
>know:
>
>                 11) what your conlang is called,
Rokbeigalmki

extremely-minor bare projects:
ool-Nuziiferoi (actually, my and my brother's aborted first conlang)
Mother Language (based on two phrases from a 10th grade story)
D'gijsiki (based on the phonology of an old code of mine)

the minor projects are *extremely* minor...Mother Language just has a
simple  sketch of phonology, basis...D'gijsiki has *only* a phonology.
Only ool-Nuziiferoi can be counted as an actual conlang project so far,
and it's been dead for at least 3 years.

>                 12) what are its unique features, and
Rokbeigalmki has a very free word order, mutating prepositions, voluntary
redundant modifiers, large inventory of sounds, three time-lengths of
vowels, nouns and verbs are the same, simple conjugation.  It also has 4
genders (male, female, neuter and neutral).  that's about all i can think
of now.

>                 13) whether you have a website.
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dunes/8515/conlang.html

>Come on!  Just hit that return button!  A lot of this I know already,
>and
>can check on in Kennaway, but it would be a convenience.
>
>                 14) Also: Mikhail Bakhtin wrote (in _Problems of
>Dostoevsky's Poetics_):
>
>        The life of the word is contained in its transfer from
>        one mouth to another, from one context to another context,
>        from one social collective to another, from one generation
>        to another generation.
>
>Of course this is precisely what we CAN'T say about "private
>languages."
>Does that bother you that your language has a speaker of one?  Some of
>you get together and learn each other's languages.  I'm thinking in
>particular of Brithenig and Kernu (whose inventors have remained
>notably
>silent!)  Is one of the appeals of a private invented language that
>you
>alone know its secrets and control its development?
>
>        What would happen if someone got hold of your conlang and
>        vast numbers began using it and speaking it and changing it?
>        Remember the "No Rich Aunt" scenario?  What if she made you
>        a village?
I would probably hate it...i can't stand it when my brother fiddles
around with my language (when i don't ask him for advice, of course :) ),
i'd probably go insane if "vast numbers" of people began modifying it out
of control.


-Stephen (Steg)

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