Re: Bigbabytalk -a primitive language for AI

In a message dated 2000:09:09 7:24:13 PM, dawier@YAHOO.COM writes:

>It was cute.  And I was able to decipher it.  But tell me, is that
>really based on Chinese grammar and English vocabulary?
    Not really. Chinese is a lil more complicated than that (what with all
the grammatical particles & such, which I find myself in a love-hate
relationship with in terms of my ConLang Caos Pidgin... I admire the more
elliptical Classical Chinese used in poetry that avoids particles like they
were cockroaches, used only when absolutely necessary...)

>  (Actually I'm
>prejudiced against any English-based IAL's or "global pidgins".

    I feel the same way - in a fashion,... that's why I am making Caos Pidgin
based on Italo-Spanish-like lexifying.
    Italian and Spanish at least have better phonemic spellings than English
& is IMHO more appealling aesthetically to my sensibilities.
    The grammar/syntax is still being thought out at this time (I am
exploring something along the lines of Chinese Pidgin English & Bislama but
capable of the elliptical syntax of Classical Chinese poetry and the
disrupted syntaxes of some contemporary poetry influenced by the Futurists -
Italian and Russian).
    And of course I want Caos Pidgin to have an "applied science fiction"
sort of feel to it as well... with lotsa music/sound metaphors & slang in it.

    czHANg