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

De: Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Fecha: Mi=E9rcoles 30 de Septiembre de 1998 23:21

>...and how would you characterize it in fifty words more or less?
>You've been overwhelming me with wonderful revelations.  For those of yo=
u
>who have answered at length but not divulged, it would help me to know:
>                 11) what your conlang is called,
Well, my first (and lost) conlang was given no name but Thompinian (very
original) or Rithen would be appropiate.

My actual projects are Fluxian (temporal name), from where some I've post=
ed
some facts.  Fyrismonlaren which is an alien conculture form planet Akulm=
 is
hyberning.

Lots of experiments with no names.

>                 12) what are its unique features, and
Rithen was gramatically West IE (based on Spanish, French, English and
Swedish, then little Esperanto) but somehow twisted.  Isolating, SVO I
think, type of word could be guessed by ending, aglutinative at letter an=
d
morphem level.  Verbs and verb derivatives (participes) would be recogniz=
e
by a mude h after vowel (actually pronounced as lengthed vowel or glotal
stop, depending on next sound).  Subject agreement into verb.  Modal verb
would flex after tense or person.

Fluxian is in development process.  It combines some experiments includin=
g
several genders, group plurals, person afixation into nouns (like he-devi=
l,
she-devil then me-devil, you-devil, etc.)  Still aglutinative, planed to =
get
more flexional.  isolating, planing to make an isolationg ergative langua=
ge.

>                 13) whether you have a website.
>
>Come on!  Just hit that return button!  A lot of this I know already, an=
d
>can check on in Kennaway, but it would be a convenience.
Personal home pages:
Main one: "The Chlewey Site" (http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/9028/ ) =
in
English, some text untranslated from Spanish.
Alternatives but less developed:
"Chlewey, proyectos y cosas" (http://members.tripod.com/~chlewey/ ) in
Spanish
"Chlewey teknologiska hemsida"
(http://www.fortunecity.se/kista/itteras/74/ ) in Swedish
"Chleweiness" (http://members.spreed.com/chlewey/ ) underdeveloped.
When organizing, my conlang pages will probably be moved into "Chleweines=
s".
Including my project of a table of conlangers.

Conlangs.
"Chlewey conlanging"
(http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/9028/conlang/conlanging.html ), where=
 I
explain my history conlanging.
"Rithen" (http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/9028/rith/ )
"Fyrismonlaren"
(http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/9028/conlang/fyrismonlaren.html )
"Akulm" (http://members.tripod.com/~chlewey/Akulm/Akulm.html )
"conlangers" (http://alpha.telecom-co.net/~chlewey/conlangers.html )

>                 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?
Rithen was suposed to be used by a fictional enterprise I would manage in
some future for any type of communication.  After I've been also concern
with AILs, an AIL is supposed to be used.  I wouldn't care about a Rich A=
unt
because I don't feel too much involved in any of my creations... there ar=
e
nor personal languages.  I will probably try to make a personal language =
and
it will be that: personal.  Probably will be on the web much like the way
I've put on the web parts of my personal life, but not for people to lear=
n
it and used... just for "exibisionism" or something like that.

One of my greatest interestes is trying to reconstruct Rithen and making =
it
personal.  Is the most personal language I've ever made and my expectetio=
ns
are different today than ten years ago.

-- Carlos Th

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