Re: Unilang: the Grammar

Hi!

SuomenkieliMaa <suomenkieli@...> writes:
> >   - the language is supposed to be some kind of
> >     proto-language for unbelievably complicated
> >     languages yet to come.  These will use a lot
> >     of contraction to derive words from their
> >     constructed ancestor, Tyl-Sjok.
> >     By using composition now, I'll be able to
> >     `compute' new stems in offspring languages.
>
> Here, however, I may comment this.  If you intend of
> having Tyl-Sjok act as the "mother" tongue from which
> to base offspring languages, will it not be terribly
> confusing/difficult to proceed if the mother tongue
> already holds such hard-to-remember combinations as
> "move-use-foot" to describe "come/go"?
I wouldn't consider these hard to remember, because usually, I'd
simply use `move' and `use foot' is a clarification.  But ok, maybe
some find it hard to remember.  It's not meant to be an auxlang,
but I'll still think about it. :-)

> The offspring
> tongues' concept of these verbs must become
> mind-boggling I guess.
Well, either these languages borrow something from other languages, or
the words become mind-boggling.  That's quite ok, I'll introduce a
politeness system in at least one languages that will scare away
Japanese.  So it is good if the rest of complicated, too. :-)

> >   - the language is meant to be (almost overly)
> >     ambiguous.  So usually, you simply don't use
> >     the long phrase for `to come', but mere use
> >     `to move'.
>
> Ambiguous, indeed!  By the way, what sort of writing
> system will Tyl-Sjok have?  Any incorporated at all,
> or is this just for a book, or...?
The writing system will contain roughtly the same information as the
spoken language.  E.g. if prosody is important (currently, it is), it
will contain prosodic marks.  It will be a mixture of phonetic and
semantic writing.  But due to it's complex font for the semantic
annotations, I didn't yet finish the type set tool.

> If you're aiming
> at ambiguity, definitely a non-Latin alphabet /
> writing system is a must!  I think I saw one earlier
> on Draseleq, when searching the net on conlang.
> Amazingly beautiful character system, although I do
> not care so much for "horizontal"
Same with my writing system.  The pronunciation is put into half a
square.  I think maximally five or six strokes are necessary to write
a disyllabic word.  It is definitely not meant to be hand-written.
If you want to see the current version, I'll put a sample on my
web-page.

**Henrik

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