Re: Steg's Rokbeigalmki (was Re: Hello everybody)

In a message dated 3/26/02 06.20.24 PM, draqonfayir@JUNO.COM writes:

>wow, thanks!  i always used to think that Rokbeigalmki was pretty boring;
>then Sally made me re-do the glossary i sent her during the last
>translation relay, since the compounds, causative forms, etc. weren't
>nearly as boringly transparent as i had thought they were.
    Transparency doesn't have to be "boring." IMHO Some of the most
interesting languages with transparency are: Chinese (esp'ly in the
compound-words and even the question-words), German, Dutch ;) and
pidgins/creoles. (Oh and a quite a few AuxLangs as well... I have fond
memories of looking at how Interlingua, Novial, Glosa, Eurolengo, etc. formed
their root-words and compounds - or not).

>cool!  can _.lilaa_ refer to any kind of creative activity?
    I think so (so far). It also means "the evolutionary process by which the
Cosmos came into being (the Big Bang, nucleo-genesis)."
    I am trying to make all my word-roots "semantically multivalued."
    To overcome amibiguity/ies, use of synonyms with the root to
dis-ambigiuate, some examples off the top of my head:

        _AArt-.lilaa_  Capital A Art (perjorative),
        _dada-.lilaa_  anti-art(experiential art),
        _daeda-.lilaa_  /d@da Lila/ craft (not craft as in hobby tho', more
like creating treasures or being a living treasure a la the craftspeople in
Japan designated "Living Treasures" for their crafts-skills)
        _nada-.lilaa_  sacred music/scientific music (music based on
cosmology, math, etc),
    _sononada-.lilaa_   art music/self-expressive music/Western Classical
music,
    _sono-.lilaa_   sound-play/environmental recordings, ambient music/ being
aware of sound playing on one's mind
        _.lila-piano_  "toy piano" ::BiG GRiNNie::

    Also I have come up the .ur-ae'u'm for "the Godhead": _Panenn(d"oz)_
"All-in/(of-God)" /pan.en~ (d_hoz)/ from the word and concept of
"panentheism":
<A HREF="http://members.aol.com/Heraklit1/faqs.htm">Pantheism: FAQs on
pantheism, panentheism, paga…</A>

    Panen is almost like the Romanized Sanskrit _Brahman_ /br`Ah_h.ma~n/ in
concept and even vague sound-symbolism! -a CVCVC duplication of _Brahman_'s
C(SV)V(AC)CVC structure.

    C= Consonant
    V= Vowel
    SV= Semi-Vowel
    AC= Aspirated Consonant

>i always liked the different stages in the creation of Your Conlang
>Formerly Known as Lego, as well as the evolution that you put it through
>every so often into a different form.
    ::bows:: thank you.   I hope .ur-ae'u'm (the ConLang formerly known as a
hella'lotta things, hehe) is approaching a much more stable level ... maybe
::WiCKeD VRiL GRiNNie::   been ponderin' how many letters to eliminate from
the .ur-ae'u'm alphabet and still have a pretty neat (& wicked) set of
phonemes. (I have always liked /v/ instead of /b/ ferinstance).
    Learning about IPA has led me to, hehe, some Caucasian languages (i.e.
Tsez and Karbardian/East Circassian) and a realization that , Eureka!!, these
sounds can be used as grammatical particles, locatives, etc. thus having a
bunch of "empty words" that will not be (too) distracting to the "loaded
words" - the semantically multivalued nuclei - and can be dropped from lines
of poetry (a la Classical Chinese poetry) or even in "normal" sentences to
reduce length!!!!

Hanuman Zhang  {HANoomaan JAHng} /'hanuma~n  dZa'hN/
~§~
_LILA_ <from Sanskrit> = "Divine Play"  - the 'joyous exercise of spontaneity
involved in the art of creation' (Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan)...the play of
creation, destruction, & re-creation, the folding & unfolding of the cosmos...
both the delight & enjoyment of this moment, & the play of [the] God[head]
("the universe is what happens when God wants to play").

_Spielraum_ <from German> = free scope to experiment with things & ideas; to
toy with ideas; room to play in

    WHIM = 1a. a sudden fancy; a caprice. b. capriciousness. 2. a kind of
windlass for raising ore or water from a mine. [17th century: origin unknown]
    WHIMSY (plural forms: WHIMSIES, WHIMSEYS) = 1. a whim; a capricious
notion or fancy. 2. capricious or quaint humour. [related to WHIM-WHAM
]/Italian _capriccio_, French _boutade_
    WHIM-WHAM = a toy or plaything