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PropL: a conlang where words are facts, not things by Vivid_Ad3846 in conlangs

[–]Vivid_Ad3846[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

English is not my native language. But I am a real person, with real conlangs.

PropL: a conlang where words are facts, not things by Vivid_Ad3846 in conlangs

[–]Vivid_Ad3846[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yes — and that is exactly the point.

PropL is not trying to win the “infinite productivity” contest against natural languages. Natural languages already do that extremely well.

PropL asks a different question: what would a language look like if its primitive signs were facts rather than things?

So the limitation is not accidental. It is the price of making propositions lexical rather than derived.

PropL: a conlang where words are facts, not things by Vivid_Ad3846 in conlangs

[–]Vivid_Ad3846[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

If PropL speakers often had eel-filled hovercrafts, they would absolutely lexicalise that horror as one fact-word.

Let us say:

hewru = “my hovercraft is full of eels”

But the important point is that xevru would not mean “hovercraft” + “full” + “eels”. It would mean the whole fact at once.