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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