Re: Hiho

Vonlia wrote:

>Hey, I am Vonlia.  I've been lurking for awhile, but haven't posted yet.
>And here I go.  I am right handed, straight, no beard, and American.
>I'm also male, 14 years old, and from the deep south.
Welcome Vonlia. I'm Mike: right-handed, straight, beardless, Canuck, male,
22.

>I haven't done
>much except playing with the idea ov conlanging, which I discovered
>after I learned of Tolkien's languages, then I learned a bit about
>Lojban, Esperanto, and now I'm here.  And I'm trying fairly hard to keep
>up with all this, but an e-mail every 10 seconds is tough.
It's better to either wait for the digest (if you chose to receive it), or
go to http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/conlang.html where you can read
them by subject thread, etc.

>And to make this seem like a meaningful post, I shall ask:  How do you
>go about learning that thing that represents sounds in // or [] or other
>various things?  I've looked a bit and found some sort of thing that
>seemed to represent sounds, but did it with untypables.
This is one of the most useful things you can learn if you want to make
sense out of a LOT that you'll see on this list. The International Phonetic
Alphabet is shown here, along with sound samples you can hear:

http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/ipa/full/

And those characters are represented on this list (with some modifications)
with a "typable" system shown here:

http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/studerende/thorinn/xsamchart.gif

And here's a site that'll convert between the two for you:

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/sampa/translate.html

>I also took a stab at creating a language a good while ago, and had an
>interesting idea of adding numbers to the end of just about everything,
>with a suffix before the number to tell what it means. Like:
>
>"Cat[part of speech][1] brown[adjective][4] eat[part of speech[5]
>fish[part of speech][2]"
>
>All numbers go from 1-5.
Would these "numbers" be the same words in that language for the numbers 1-
5?

>So, cat would be the first part of speech (which probably isn't the
>right term...), the 5 ones being subject, direct object, indirect
>object, preposition, and verb.
You're halfway to having a case system with the subject / object / indirect
object marking. But if verbs are just marked as "verb", do they conjugate
in any way?

>Brown is an adjective (modifying what's behind it), the 4 meaning it
>gets 4 stars out of 5 on its brownness.  On a brownness scale of 1-5, it
>gets a 4.
This is cool. I guess you'd have five degrees for every adjective: not so
brown, kind of brown, fairly brown, very brown, brownest of the brown.

>Also, is there perhapse an IRC channel where conlanging goes on?
There have been a couple in the past. They tend to live short lives.

M