Re: CHAT: Nakiltipkaspimak

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:49:00 +0200, Tal the Storyteller wrote:

>  *grmpf*! One more incorporating language... You're all
>  thieves! :) What is it with this new batch 'a 'langers... all
>  incorporatin', all active-systems... Not that you are a newbie
>  Daniel but geeez... Are "they" putting something into the
>  water-supply? (Damn can't say that in târuven as there's no word
>  for "put", but wait...) What will be the next "big minds think
>  alike" -> "conlangers conlang alike" wave... Matrix-languages? (as
>  in C. J. Cherry's Chanur-series)
:) I am _not_ working on one of those noun-incorporating, all-active
systems, hehe... BTW what is this Matrix-languages system like? ;)

Seriously, I seem to be more intrigued by -roughly - two types of languages:


1) minimalistic strict word order languages (i.e. pidgins, creoles, sign
language, code-languages [SeaSpeak, frinstances])

2) almost "seemingly chaotic", free order isolating languages like Lisu
(Lolo-Burmese) and the "poetic telegraphic", elliptical sign language used
by experienced creative signers, by sign-learning children and by signing
primates in language-experiments

... as well as the syntactical stylistics of poetic language.

czHANg, who is planning on learning sign language (American Sign Language
[ASL])

"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a
brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish to the
crowd."                        - from the _I Ching_





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