Re: Efficiency/Spatial Compactness

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:07:25 -0400, li_sasxsek@NUTTER.NET wrote:

>> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of John Crowe
>
>> Efficiency (use less space/time to convey the same amount of info)
>in
>> conlangs is one of my newer interests, and I don't know much
>> about this
>> idea. What is the formal name for this? What are the results of
>formal
>> studies/works in this area? All of the ideas in this post are
>> just from my
>> own thought; I have read few things by other authors about this.
>>...
>
>I have a project I start a long time ago that plays with these ideas.
>It has a huge phonology and I've been working on different ideas where
>I can take different phonetic aspects and assign them each a function.
>For example there are a series of tone contours that are used to mark
>noun case, and verbal tenses. I'm considering maybe beginning all
>verbs with say stops, and maybe nouns could all start with fricatives.
>Then I could maybe categorize them somhow with a certain class having
>aspirated consonants, while another may be all palatized.  Just ideas
>I'm playing with.  It's not something I'd ever expect anyone to be
>able to actually learn and use.
Hmmm.... I used to do have the similar ideas, then found Ithkuil, which
completely made me give up (I wanted to create something unique). Now I
working on a meta-conlang, which hopefully is an original idea.