Re: Rating Languages
| From: | Amber Adams <amber@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 22, 2001, 8:53 |
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On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 08:46:39AM +0200, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> I think Nik Taylors Watakasi comes quite close to a hard conlang - and I
> once translated a bit of a story from Watakasi to Denden. Denden is
> an easy conlang - everyone can learn it.
I know enough Uatakassi to be able to insult the native speakers. It
seemed difficult to me for a while, until it all suddenly make sense. This
is either an ephiphany or an immense moment of dorkiness, depending on how
you feel about conlanging.
"It's just like backwards Japanese," as it was put by the inventor himself,
nicely sums up the grammar. Verb conjugation isn't really so bad, there's
trickiness with tense and aspect, and of course it's ergative, but so
is Hindi in the past perfect tense. :P
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