fw: <nettime> OnlyOneNativeSpeaker: the collaborative Babylon bonanza
Pieter Z.
readers may take interest in his Nederfobia Manifesto too,
http://socialfiction.org/fobia.htm . Cheers, P.]
http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0411/msg00000.html
<nettime> OnlyOneNativeSpeaker: the collaborative Babylon bonanza
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Subject: <nettime> OnlyOneNativeSpeaker: the collaborative Babylon
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From: Wilfried Hou Je Bek <wilfriedhoujebek{at}yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 06:59:00 -0800 (PST)
Reply-to: Wilfried Hou Je Bek <wilfriedhoujebek{at}yahoo.com>
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OnlyOneNativeSpeaker
the collaborative Babylon bonanza
http://socialfiction.org/onlyone
Languages, by cultural definition, seek standardisation and
mass-adoption;
the command of language is one axis on which the ability to participate
in
all what society has to offer revolves around. It's to this domain of
human culture that OnlyOneNativeSpeaker seeks to add parallelism,
diversity and heterogeneity. It will do this by creating thousands of
new
artificial languages. Languages with deliberately just that: Only One
Native Speaker.
A language is a collaborative effort to conceptualise place and time. At
the most fundamental level languages reflect the environment of, and the
social agreements between, the community it belongs to. The study of
languages from other cultures is of direct important to us, as it shows
us
the boundaries of our own culture, and refutes claims of cultural
universality.
OnlyOneNativeSpeaker excludes no possible line of enquiry. Every
artificial language, independent of medium, origin and intent helps to
display the horizon of possibility, in ourselves as well as in others.
But
creating a language from scratch is not the only option, finding
languages
where nobody did before: in crowds, in amoeba, or in the shape of rocks,
is of equal interest to the scope of OnlyOneNativeSpeaker.
How can you participate in the Babylon bonanza that is called
OnlyOneNativeSpeaker? That's simple, develop a language! While doing
that,
send us an e-mail with a link to the website containing the purpose and
details of your language. If necessary we can host this information for
you. At the same time OnlyOneNativeSpeaker will try to facilitate the
exchange of ideas between all people involved as far as language
permits.
Our Website:
http://socialfiction.org/onlyone
Get in Touch:
onlyone [at] socialfiction [dot]org
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Prai Jei
<41870062$0$37789$e4fe...@news.xs4all.nl>:
> Languages, by cultural definition, seek standardisation and
> mass-adoption;
> the command of language is one axis on which the ability to participate
> in
> all what society has to offer revolves around. It's to this domain of
> human culture that OnlyOneNativeSpeaker seeks to add parallelism,
> diversity and heterogeneity. It will do this by creating thousands of
> new
> artificial languages. Languages with deliberately just that: Only One
> Native Speaker.
Already up and running - have a look at alt.language.artificial. Nome vada
dil on omeshegu ubioshem bilvumor dumashai si - shu hem na.
(Translation of that last bit: there are many people out there are the only
ones who speak their own artificial language - including myself.)
--
Paul Townsend
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