Re: Hive English Orthography

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:27:54 -0000, Joseph Bridwell <zhosh@...>
wrote:

>Let's see if this post makes it to the list. A long one from
>yesterday seems never to have appeared.
>
>> Inspired by a couple of the Norwescon panels, I came up with yet
>> another conlang idea.
>
>Ditto.
>
Freaky.  Completely independently of these Norwescon panels, I was thinking
of making my "Elvish" counterpart of Noygwexaal "Orcish" be a vaguely
insectile-sounding language, and giving the elves of that world a hive-
based structure.

Currently it's in the early stages of development; I'm generating a fairly
interesting phonology with lots of syllabic fricatives and affricates, as
well as clicks and a limited number of vowel sounds.

I don't have enough to post yet, though; I'm being hindered by the fact
that I want to make it partly danced, and I'm struggling over exactly how.
A reasonable starting compromise, I guess, would be a cut-down "Static
Elvish" cant, without the gesticulation and movements, for use in battle
and/or other situations requiring both speech and movements with both hands.

Obviously, in that world, humans have quite a bit more in common with orcs
than with elves, at least linguistically speaking.

Geoff