Re: Macrospeak and Microspeak

Jake X wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> After lurking for a few days (in other words not proposing a conlang of my
> own), I want to make a proposal. Please note that this is only an exercize.
> I want to see how well I can pack information into a sentence. So the first
> of my exercize twin-langs I will call Microspeak (title not important, maybe
> I'll change them but it's just an exercize....). I have not worked anything
> out yet, but here's an idea for Microspeak:
>
> She (unmarried girl named Sarah) walks (habitually, without fail) to school
> (high school).
Well, for what its worth here's how Ok does it:


Moxemzo

Mo she
Xe school
-m accusative/dative case marker
zo to walk

Or do you want me to include all that parenthetical stuff too?



> That project will be to come up with a simple system to cram all that
> information into few words. But I don't expect it to be very learnable.
>
> The second side of the coin, Macrospeak, will be the opposite, everything
> generalized, nothing need be said unless that's the point of the sentence.
> So, theoretically, if I can make this happen: (this would be the translation
> of the same sentence in macrospeak)
>
> "That one" performs change of motion to other place.
>
> But... the fun will be I'll try to share vocabulary between them in
> parallel.
>
> Tell me what you think...
>
> Jake
>
> ~Patient is the procrastinator.~
>
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