[conlang_learners] [gzb] Trying it out.

[Jim Henry]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Jim Henry<jimhenry1973 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Using {niqm-van} should work too, but I'm not sure offhand what would
> be the best case-marker for the name in that structure, since I

I should clarify this, and it may make the overall entrerprise of
learning gjâ-zym-byn clearer.

For any language's basic *grammar*, there are probably a number of
ways to say various things.  But at the level of *pragmatics*, the
speaker community's actual habits probably involve mostly using one of
those and not using the others, or using each with different nuances
whose distinctions of meaning are not obvious from the mere syntax and
morphology.

gzb, as a personal language, has had until now only a few aspects of
its pragmatics fleshed out by actual usage.  Some of the things that
*aren't* fleshed out yet, or only tentatively sketched, include things
like this -- greetings and conversational patterns, "Hello", "My name
is so-and-so", "How are you doing?", "Good-bye", etc.  That aspect is
better worked out than it was a few months ago, before Brett started
learning gzb, but still not well documented.  So y'all who are
learning gzb will be helping me flesh out this aspect of the language,
while you learn the other parts of the language that are already more
fully developed from having been used a lot.  Thank you.

Those of you who haven't yet subscribed to the gzb Google Group,

http://groups.google.com/group/gjax-zym-byn

why not go ahead and do so real soon now; then we'll move this
discussion to that list.

-- 
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/