Re: Conlang as a divider from others
| From: | Grandsire, C.A. <grandsir@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 6, 1999, 9:45 |
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abrigon wrote:
>
> The comments about the people of Micronesia whose lingo supposedly is
> unrelated to any others in the area, makes me thing that in some ways a
> Conlang can be a WALL to communication, or atleast between groups. It
> can be like some professions that have highly technically words so that
> ever if they are speaking English, you can't understand the whole
> converations due to all the additional words, like medical doctors have.
>
And that's why sometimes the common folk don't trust a doctor :) .
It makes me also think of the special naming languages invented by
chemists to name all molecules in an unambiguous way that allows to
reconstruct the structure of the moecule simply by parsing the name. I
had to learn this language during my Organic Chemistry classes, and
needless to say, it's something very complex and nearly hermetic :) (and
full of rules and subrules, etc... to take every case into account, and
even rules for abbreviation because some names can be as long as a full
paragraph :) ).
> I wonder if a small group could not invent a Conlang, use it as a lingo
> of thier group/commune/sect/etc so that amongst themselves they can
> communicate, but the outside can't. Like the Amish and like groups go
> with old High German and like lingos..
>
ObConlang/Conculture:
That's exactly how the Noli use Notya, as a secret language for their
diaspora. The discussion among them being whether Notya is an invented
language, a natural language or an "engineered" natural language.
> Mike
>
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