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

Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:

>                 11) what your conlang is called,
     Gladilatian, from _gladifer_ (the species whose language it is), =
from
the Latin _gladius_gladii_, "sword", and _fero_ferre_tuli_latus_, "to =
bear",
due to the resemblence of gladifers' horns to swords.  The Gladilatian =
word
for "Gladilatian" is _mehyohot_mset_, literally "the language of the =
gladi-
fers".

>                 12) what are its unique features, and
     Its lack of verbs is its most notable unusual feature, although it's
not, as it turns out, unique.  Pablo Flores recently mentioned that he =
had
once constructed a verbless language called Tomoulini Ganmaa, and Sylvia
Sotomayor has just put up a website about the verbless language Kelen~.
     I have never come across another language, natural or constructed,
which uses Gladilatian style conjunctions, which is surprising, since =
when
I designed them they did not seem all that strange.  Of course, such
languages could exist and I'm just not aware of them.  A Gladilatian con-
junction consists of one word preceeding the last conjunct and another
preceeding each of the other conjuncts.  So "A and B and C" would be "za =
A
za B we C".

>                 13) whether you have a website.
     http://www.connix.com/~dennis/glad/lang.htm

>                 14)
> Does that bother you that your language has a speaker of one?
     No.  It would be nice if someone liked it enough to learn it, but
that's not what it's being designed for.  (Technically, it doesn't even =
have
a speaker of one.  I couldn't honestly say I'm fluent in it.  In fact, =
the
lexicon of the language is not yet large enough for fluency to exist.)

>        What would happen if someone got hold of your conlang and
>        vast numbers began using it and speaking it and changing it?
     I would be very surprised.

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             Dennis Paul Himes    <>    dennis@himes.connix.com
             homepage: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/dennis.htm
        Gladilatian page: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/glad/lang.htm
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Disclaimer: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle
brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance =
as
the air."                      - Romeo & Juliet, Act I Scene iv Verse =
96-99