Finally, a WORTHY interlanguage
SleatorESM
Interlingua (to name a few), I am pleased to announce an auxlang truly fit for
the job: Kokipopi. Designed for ultimate clarity and internationalism, it will
certainly stir up feelings of love and brotherhood. Many other invented
languages claim they will promote world peace, but it is my firm belief that
only Kokipopi can make this claim and tell the truth about it.
In order to allow the highest amount of speakers to use it, there are only four
sounds, and they are all commonly used: p, k, o, and i. In addition, since many
people can only pronounce (C)V syllables, this will be the syllable structure
of the language.
Nouns will be represented by an ending of -i. Verbs will be represented by an
ending of -o. There will be no adjectives, since once you can describe
something and attach a label to it you can persecute it.
Nouns are formed by using basic roots that describe them. ko is a root that
means big, ki is a root that means small, po is the root that means round, and
pi is the root that means square. (Note: if you get a word like *kopo where it
ends in -o but is a noun, add an -i to the end of it, getting kopoi/) In
addition to removing the necessity for more verb-adjectives, this makes for
better understanding when using nouns. For example, the English word speaker
can mean several different things, all having their own word in Kokipopi.
Doubling an element makes a plural, such as kiki, "small things." Another bonus
of this feature is that it will put an end to racism. How can you oppress a
class when they have the same name as you?
Pronouns (treated as nouns) will not be separated by gender, as many people
aren't used to this custom. The same goes for plurals. Instead, in order to
make for full flexibility, the same word (kokipopi) will be used to represent
first, second, and third persons. In addition, this word forms relative
pronouns, question words, and other non-personal pronouns (everything, someone,
etc.).
Verbs are also formed by roots. ko is a root that indicates a physical action,
ki indicates nonphyscial action, po indicates a change in state, and pi
indicates a continuation in state. Thus, the prase "has been thinking" would be
represented by kipi, since thinking is generally not a physical action and
whoever is thinking is continuing to do it.
Word order in interlanguages tends to be SVO or SOV. Now, these may represent
80% of natural languages, but they aren't fair to people who natively speak in
an VSO, VOS, OVS, or OSV language. In the interest of fairness, Kokipopi will
be an OSV language.
As you can see, these features and designs have been created with everyone in
mind, and I would be overjoyed if the EU accepts my languages as The
interlanguage. I would not be pleased just for myself, but for the spirit of
peace that acknowledgement and acceptance of Kokipopi would clearly display.
-Morris Cecil Glalet
Kopoi
Gareth Wilson
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> In order to allow the highest amount of speakers to use it, there are only four
> sounds, and they are all commonly used: p, k, o, and i.
Your Eurocentrism is breathtaking. Any Arab or Nigerian would be utterly confused
by such an exotic phonology. I suggest t, k, m, and u instead.
Tukumukumu!
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Gareth Wilson
Christchurch
New Zealand
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Robert Hubert
Robert
"SleatorESM" <sleat...@aol.comIHtSpm> wrote in message
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> In a world filled with lame, flawed interlanguages such as Esperanto, Ido,
and
> Interlingua (to name a few), I am pleased to announce an auxlang truly fit
for
> the job: Kokipopi. Designed for ultimate clarity and internationalism, it
will
> certainly stir up feelings of love and brotherhood. Many other invented
> languages claim they will promote world peace, but it is my firm belief
that
> only Kokipopi can make this claim and tell the truth about it.
>
> In order to allow the highest amount of speakers to use it, there are only
four
Pete Turk
You're right -- and such a worthy interlanguage!
Except for the name of course -- it should be PopiKoki....
>;-)
On 09 Oct 2000 07:06:50 GMT, sleat...@aol.comIHtSpm (SleatorESM)
wrote:
Pete Turk <Pe...@ragtag.demon.co.uk> ICQ# 11981084
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May your doorstep ever be dirty.
-- Romany blessing
ANDROGENOIDE
excellent suggestion
ANDROGENOIDE
disturbed by the tendency to take one's hobbies too seriously.
Robert Hubert
let up! Maybe we could reduce the vowel scheme to one... how about an
infant's first sound... OOOH! (u), then if you allowed voicing of the K to a
G, the base vocabulary could be learned shortly after birth... GOO, GOO!
Robert
"ANDROGENOIDE" <androg...@cs.com> wrote in message
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Jacques Guy
>
> Excellent work, and I agree, we all take things too seriously, and we seldom
> let up! Maybe we could reduce the vowel scheme to one... how about an
> infant's first sound... OOOH! (u), then if you allowed voicing of the K to a
> G, the base vocabulary could be learned shortly after birth... GOO, GOO!
Take a look at another one:
http://linguist.emich.edu/issues/6/6-200.html
Eventually, I completed it. It turned out to be quite a rich
language, even though no sentence could be longer than two
words.