Re: I'm new!
From: | The Gray Wizard <dbell@...> |
Date: | Saturday, October 21, 2000, 13:39 |
> From: Robert Hailman
>
> The Gray Wizard wrote:
> >
> > > From: H. S. Teoh
> >
> > > > Again, nice work! I like the texture of the language. You
> > > really have to
> > > > give it a name, however. A conlang without a name lacks soul.
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > *whimper* I guess I need to come up with a name for my
> conlang as well :-/
> > > The problem is, I want to base it on the native word for "language" as
> > > opposed to deriving it from the name of its speakers. And to
> do this, I
> > > need to work out my participial system first...
> >
> > So, get cracking and work out that participial system then! We
> can't have a
> > lot of soulless and nameless conlangs knocking about now can we? ;-)
> >
>
> Hey! I have 3 nameless conlangs "knocking about", as you say, and I
> don't particularly feel like naming them right now. Of course, one of
> them is a joke to amuse my friends, that is supposed to be as ugly as
> possible in pronounciation and orthography, and I just started another
> yesterday. The 3rd one in question probably could use a name, but I
> haven't had much time to work on it.
>
> Ajuk went unnamed for a good long while before I came up with the name,
> so why can other languages?
Ummm. I think you may have missed the ;-) in my message.
David