Inspired by The Loom of Language by Frederick Bodmer and Lancelot Hogben (New York: 1944), a favorite volume of my armchair-linguist Dad. 😉 https://archive.org/details/TheLoomOfLanguage
I have to love a language that has a word for “love at first sight” (fieschada) that is spoken in a micronation whose name means “inside the house” in Finnish. The 15-year-old monarch decreed the national motto to be “A man’s room is his kingdom.” 😉
No offense meant, but … wow, talk about having too much time on your hands! 😏
Had he only known, he could have used Hangul with a few more letters thrown in to cover “v” and “th” and so on.
@bbstl,
I was amazed that a 14-year-old devised a culture and its language in such amazing detail. I got the impression that King Robert I may have invented Talossa and its language as a way of dealing with his mother’s death. Even if that wasn’t what motivated him to brainstorm all this applied linguistics, it’s still quite a feat. It kind of reminds me of the teenager who cracked the code for Mayan glyphs. — Instead of hacking around doing dumb stuff and getting into trouble, they did something useful.
LOL at using Hangul! Would that have made him King Sejong II?! 😉
Nah he’d only be Sejong II, or perhaps Tolkien II, if he invented a whole new writing system.
Hangul is a very efficient writing system though, it can even be used to write Chinese, which whilst I’m sure would never become common place, I do sort of wish was a more well known fact. Although how dare hangul be able to write a 4000 word logographic script in just 28 featural alphabetic characters. THE NERVE.
Did you know there is a dialect of Manadrin spoken is Kazakhstan that writes with CYRILLIC??? Of all things. *smh*
It’s really not all that surprising. Whilst certainly not COMMON there are quite a few constructed languages out there, particularly for fictional worlds. Not to mention the master himself, Tolkien. I’d be more impressed if he’d invented his own writing system to be honest. That’s far less common.
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PakalanaPikake
October 16, 2019 at 3:18 AM
Constructed Language
Talossan
https://web.archive.org/web/20060205013115/http://my.execpc.com/~talossa/glhetg.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talossa
Inspired by The Loom of Language MORE
PakalanaPikake
October 16, 2019 at 4:00 AM
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Inspired by The Loom of Language by Frederick Bodmer and Lancelot Hogben (New York: 1944), a favorite volume of my armchair-linguist Dad. 😉
https://archive.org/details/TheLoomOfLanguage
I have to love a language that has a word for “love at first sight” (fieschada) that is spoken in a micronation whose name means “inside the house” in Finnish. The 15-year-old monarch decreed the national motto to be “A man’s room is his kingdom.” 😉
bbstl 🧹
October 16, 2019 at 9:17 AM
Hahaha I think I will adopt that motto.
bbstl 🧹
October 16, 2019 at 9:19 AM
No offense meant, but … wow, talk about having too much time on your hands! 😏
Had he only known, he could have used Hangul with a few more letters thrown in to cover “v” and “th” and so on.
PakalanaPikake
October 16, 2019 at 10:12 AM
@bbstl,
I was amazed that a 14-year-old devised a culture and its language in such amazing detail. I got the impression that King Robert I may have invented Talossa and its language as a way of dealing with his mother’s death. Even if that wasn’t what motivated him to brainstorm all this applied linguistics, it’s still quite a feat. It kind of reminds me of the teenager who cracked the code for Mayan glyphs. — Instead of hacking around doing dumb stuff and getting into trouble, they did something useful.
LOL at using Hangul! Would that have made him King Sejong II?! 😉
💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
October 16, 2019 at 2:26 PM
Nah he’d only be Sejong II, or perhaps Tolkien II, if he invented a whole new writing system.
Hangul is a very efficient writing system though, it can even be used to write Chinese, which whilst I’m sure would never become common place, I do sort of wish was a more well known fact. Although how dare hangul be able to write a 4000 word logographic script in just 28 featural alphabetic characters. THE NERVE.
Did you know there is a dialect of Manadrin spoken is Kazakhstan that writes with CYRILLIC??? Of all things. *smh*
💜🍍☠ Sicarius The Queen of Melonia ☠🍍💜
October 16, 2019 at 2:22 PM
It’s really not all that surprising. Whilst certainly not COMMON there are quite a few constructed languages out there, particularly for fictional worlds. Not to mention the master himself, Tolkien. I’d be more impressed if he’d invented his own writing system to be honest. That’s far less common.