Re: Another Introduction
| From: | Alex Fink <a4pq1injbok_0@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 13:12 |
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>What sort of setting is it in? Is it a language set in our world? Is it in
>a world of its own? Is it all by itself, without any cultural reference?
It's in a world of its own - I guess one could say Earth in an alternate
timeline; the flora and fauna and geography are the same as the Earth we
know, but the cultures and languages are not. Unfortunately, I don't know
much about the culture of its speakers now.
>Is this binary language transferrable into a spoken mode?
I've made one way to speak the language, by just assigning a syllable to
each group of seven bits. But since the words aren't aligned to any
particular position, every single morpheme has seven phonologically
unrelated allomorphs, and there's absolutely bizarre sandhi:
0000101101110110 'green' can be realized as
0000101|1011101|10 /saxinu/ or
000010|1101110|110 /oDaCe/ or
00001|0110111|0110 /emaci/, and so on; and
00001011011101101001001, which is 'green' followed by 'you', comes out to
0000101|1011101|1010010|01 /saxip\opo/.
Alex
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