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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5556 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 1 of 7 26 April 2010 at 5:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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It was on a dreary day in April that I beheld my language completed...
How many of us have read, watched or at least heard of Mary Shelley's chilling tale of "Frankenstein"? Well, as I live only 15 minutes away from the remains of the real Castle Frankenstein, which allegedly inspired Mary Shelley's gothic classic on her way to Geneva, I thought I might dream up my own friendly little monster or language hippogriff... Note: "Like a griffin, it has the head of an eagle, claws armed with talons, and wings covered with feathers, the rest of its body being that of a horse. This strange animal is called a Hippogriff." [source: Thomas Bulfinch, "Legends of Charlemagne", 1863) So here's my entry... The phonology of !Xóõ (aka Taa) enhanced with the tonal system of Vietnamese. The morphology of Archi with the directionality of Arabic. The word order of German, but the word stress of Russian. The grammar of Finnish, Lithuanian or Polish, alongside the language transparency of Basque. The writing system of Traditional Chinese, including all its many different styles, but with the additional artistic rendering and changes in direction as found in Ancient Egyptian. The irregularity, dialectal variation and exceptions of English. ...and it's alive! If you were tasked with piecing together the most challenging language out of all the currently existing languages of the world, what little monster would you dream up? Edited by Teango on 26 April 2010 at 5:24pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6011 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 7 27 April 2010 at 9:15pm | IP Logged | ||
English. ;-P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mafouz Diglot Groupie Spain Joined 5325 days ago 56 posts - 64 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: German, Japanese, French | Message 3 of 7 28 April 2010 at 3:46am | IP Logged | ||
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English no doubt. Basically imposible to dominate for non-native speakers ;)
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| MLSUSA94 Groupie United States linguisticventures19 Joined 5708 days ago 50 posts - 53 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 4 of 7 28 April 2010 at 3:54am | IP Logged | ||
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The topic title is a good idea for a band name.
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| tracker465 Senior Member United States Joined 5352 days ago 355 posts - 496 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 5 of 7 28 April 2010 at 9:05am | IP Logged | ||
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Well this might not be so interesting, but I have created a bit of a Frankenstein language, although not by my will.
Often I take the word order of German, when speaking Spanish. For instance: Subject - verb - object, conjunction - subject - object - verb With these constructions, I so often kick the verb back to the end of the sentence. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rebrafi Pentaglot Newbie Brazil Joined 5329 days ago 18 posts - 23 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Spanish, Esperanto, French, English Studies: Italian | Message 6 of 7 28 April 2010 at 7:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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khoisan languages with all that clicks. It is impossible to speak, worst trying to write
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| DaisyMaisy Senior Member United States Joined 5380 days ago 115 posts - 178 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish Studies: Swedish, Finnish | Message 7 of 7 30 April 2010 at 4:18am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not much of an expert, so I'm going just off what I've learned here...
I would take the verb forms of Georgian, the orthography of Welsh, the writing system of Mandarin, the noun case system of Finnish, the consonants of Ubykh, and the vowels of Hawaiian. Shouldn't we be naming our Franken-languages? I will try and come up with a name for mine..... 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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