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I've always had an interest in invented languages and spent some time lurking the conlang/worldlang/auxlang communities. They are a very eccentric and confronta

I've always had an interest in invented languages and spent some time lurking the conlang/worldlang/auxlang communities. They are a very eccentric and confrontational bunch of people, to put it mildly The most interesting auxlang project I ever came across was Unish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unish), mainly because it is the only one I know of created at a university by trained linguists. It's word selection was highly methodical (http://www.unish.net/introduce/e_unish_Word.jsp http://www.unish.net/introduce/e_unish_Word.jsp) unlike most invented languages which are based on the personal tastes of the inventor. Check out the book In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent for a fun and interesting look at the whole topic.

interfixus 8y ago
My highschool latin teacher - a highly idiosyncratic individual, not to put too fine a point on it - constructed not one, but two completely artificial languages, although to be fair, one was a derivative of the other, sort of the way many modern tongues are of latin. The thing is, these were thorougly developed and well thought out constructs - the 'classical' one of them in particular being logically structured and built up from fundamental particles. Felt very much like real languages from what I saw of them. And as probably his only pupil ever to express an interest, believe me, I saw quite a lot. I can still picture him coming to a halt somewhere on the main street, scribbling in his ever present notebook if some new idea had presented itself. And I knew a fresh presentation would be coming up... Idiosyncratic to begin with, and sliding into decidedly bunkers. He was pensioned off early from his teaching position, and later disappeared on a mountain trek. His languages went with him.
codetrotter 8y ago
> It's word selection was highly methodical unlike most invented languages which are based on the personal tastes of the inventor. Another language like this is Interlingua. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua

interfixus 8y ago

My highschool latin teacher - a highly idiosyncratic individual, not to put too fine a point on it - constructed not one, but two completely artificial languages, although to be fair, one was a derivative of the other, sort of the way many modern tongues are of latin. The thing is, these were thorougly developed and well thought out constructs - the 'classical' one of them in particular being logically structured and built up from fundamental particles. Felt very much like real languages from what I saw of them. And as probably his only pupil ever to express an interest, believe me, I saw quite a lot. I can still picture him coming to a halt somewhere on the main street, scribbling in his ever present notebook if some new idea had presented itself. And I knew a fresh presentation would be coming up... Idiosyncratic to begin with, and sliding into decidedly bunkers. He was pensioned off early from his teaching position, and later disappeared on a mountain trek. His languages went with him.

codetrotter 8y ago

> It's word selection was highly methodical unlike most invented languages which are based on the personal tastes of the inventor. Another language like this is Interlingua. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua