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If you feel that it's a loglang/engelang feel free to create a new page on http://loccan3.wikinet.org and post your grammar there. --- In engelang@yahoogroups.com, Brett Williams <mungojelly@...> wrote: > > Hmm, this is an interesting thread. I think there's room for lots of > loglangs! I wish we would explore more of the possibilities. > > The loglang I'm working on is presently named "Babebabo"! Its > segmentation and basic level of parsing is all in the vowels, it uses > five: > > A: Continues a root, so just "b" is a very short root, and then "bab" > is another root, or "t" is another very short root, and also "bat" > "tat" "tab" "batatatatab" "batabatababababababat" etc are all distinct > roots infinitely. So there's plenty of room for roots, though of > course there's advantages to being short. > > E: Combines roots into compounds, so the root "t" plus the root "b" > makes the compound "teb", or the root "batatatatab" plus the root "t" > makes the compound "batatatatabet", or "bab" plus "tat" plus "bat" > makes "babetatebat". > > I/U: Together a root+i and a root+u form a pair of parentheses. > Inside them can be nothing, or one or more more such pairs. So for > instance: "babi babu" (babi babu) or "babi babi babu babu" (babi (babi > babu) babu) or "babebabi babi babu babi babu babebabu" (babebabi (babi > babu) (babi babu) babebabu) or "babi babebabi babi babu babebabu babi > babu babu" (babi (babebabi (babi babu) babebabu) (babi babu) babu) > > O: Just a shortcut-- if there's nothing inside of an I/U pair, > instead of saying the word twice it can be shortened to just root+o > once, so "babi babu" becomes just "babo" and "batabatabababababababati > batabatabababababababatu" becomes just "batabatabababababato"! > > The next level of the grammar is determined by each enclosing pair of > parentheses. Each root has its own grammar for what the things inside > it mean. I'm not sure yet what the common grammars should be (it > can't really be completely different everywhere, or it won't be for > humans). > > Several of the super short roots, for instance, should have a grammar > of lifting the first word from what they enclose, and then acting as > if the rest of the words they enclose had been enclosed by that word, > so instead of "babebabi babo babebabu" you could just say "di babebabo > babo du" > > As well as these bits of the grammar I've also invented parts of the > process by which Babebabo will begin its life: Instead of starting > with a whole vocabulary, Babebabo will start with just a few words > perhaps and this skeleton grammar. There'll be a system for proposing > and prioritizing new words, and one proposed word will be selected by > the community each day to begin its life as an official word of the > language. The intention is that by dribbling the words out into the > language, each word in the language is guaranteed to have had a moment > where anyone cared about it enough to actually use it, define it, and > make friendly beginner lessons about it. > > Sometimes the new word of a day will have an interesting internal > grammar, making the language more complicated grammatically and > enabling all sorts of new tricks everyone can start to play with. > Most days the new word of the day will just be like that "banan" now > means banana, so everyone can start saying "banani (whatever you > usually put inside a fruit word) bananu" and caption some images or > something so people in the future will be able to catch up. > > <3, > mungojelly > aka > la stela selckiku >