Re: MADJAL: A conlang game. Round one. (longish)

Gary Shannon wrote:

> Madjal, a conlang "game"
>
> Back story:
>
> Thousands of years ago, before the dawn of recorded
> history, the world's most powerful shamans, wizards,
> witches, and other magick users, gathered together in
> the Lost Valley south of Eden and west of Mu to create
> the world's first International Auxiliary Language for
> magickal spell casting.  For only thus could the spell
> research of one magick user be shared with all magick
> users the world over.  They called this language
> Madjal.
Although I've never elaborated the idea, I assume the Galactic Union has
some kind of auxlang used to communicate with computers aboard and between
its spacecraft.  In a preliminary way, I envision it as something like
Madjal.  One and two syll. words, probably with logical operators, minimal
grammar per se; lots of navigational terms etc. Or maybe I could adapt
Klingon :-)))

A similar idea, also not off the drawing board, is the symbolic system the
Kash use to notate their telepathic communications with the Cousins
(analogue: Koko the gorilla and ASL).
>
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> The complete Madjal corpus as of 30 June 2004:
> (Updated Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and soon to be
> hosted on its very own web page.)
>
>    Fadjo pulam! -> Torch (I command thee to) ignite!
>    Clocus reviam! -> Stone arise/levitate!
>    Temin distari! -> Beast/monster cease-to-exist!
>    Purata bolusam! -> Door open!
>    Temin pulam! -> Monster ignite!
>    Temin lofito! -> Monster fly away!
>    Temin khi lofito -> The demon flew away.
>    Purata khi bolusam. -> The door opened.
>    Gaudio kashadi! -> Window (I command thee to)
> shatter!
>
> ===========================
>
> Madjal challenge #1 (new grammar required):
> (Challenge deadline Friday midnight GMT)
>
> Given the complete Madjal corpus (above), translate
> into Madjal the sentence "John ignited the torch" or
> "John caused the torch to ignite."
Djokhane pen fadjo khi pulam
>
> Extra credit translation with same new grammar (new
> vocabulary required): "Mary frightened the demon." or
> "Mary made the demon afraid."
Marie pen temin karkam.

(I originally put in the IPA for those proper names, probably in violation
of the rules.  So figure it out yourselves.)

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