10-07-2006, 03:27 AM
10-13-2006, 10:58 AM
I just don't see the point of it, that's all. We seem to be speaking a language of our own already. At least that's what I must surmise when I speak what seems to be perfectly good English and I am looked at as if I am speaking a foreign language! :evil:
10-14-2006, 10:32 AM
Sometimes I think I might as well be talking in Swahili!
11-02-2006, 03:09 PM
Que?
11-03-2006, 04:23 PM
I just still don't understand why all this is necessary. :?:
11-05-2006, 03:58 AM
I just don't see the point but I guess it is an interesting exercise.
11-05-2006, 04:33 PM
I think part of the rationale was that a separate culture should have a separate language.
What I want to know, is, will it be useful to the autistics out there who don't yet have a method of communication , the non-speaking ones (but most of whom already understand their country's language when they hear it spoken).
These are the autistics who really need a "language" (although they probably have a language, they just need the expressive method).
Now, some people have said that because autlang is a constructed language, it will be super-easy to learn and so it would be useful to those who struggle with language. So that's interesting...
What I want to know, is, will it be useful to the autistics out there who don't yet have a method of communication , the non-speaking ones (but most of whom already understand their country's language when they hear it spoken).
These are the autistics who really need a "language" (although they probably have a language, they just need the expressive method).
Now, some people have said that because autlang is a constructed language, it will be super-easy to learn and so it would be useful to those who struggle with language. So that's interesting...
11-07-2006, 08:07 PM
http://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/21/eins...ity-watch/
yqueen Wrote:
Do Autistics see time differently? If so, is the difference uniform enough to consider devising our own 'clock?' (only half-serious about that...)
11-11-2006, 04:23 AM
yqueen Wrote:
No articles (a, an, the)?? How can you tell whether an Autlang speaker is referring to something general or specific?
Chinese manages fine without them ... not sure how, though, as I didn't get that far.
12-05-2006, 09:20 AM
Look, I can see you all have gone to a lot of care and trouble with this new language but I just don't understand why??? Won't this kind of thing isolate us further from mainstream society? Then again, maybe I'm just the kind of person who isn't very interested in making up new languages. I have lots of fun with the English language already.
01-20-2007, 04:18 AM
It would be more of a mental exercise than anything else.
01-28-2007, 11:03 AM
I'd really just rather stick to my native language, which is English.
03-10-2007, 02:14 PM
Why not English then, or mandarin?
It would be some fun if it was a language mostly just aspies were able to speak.
It would be some fun if it was a language mostly just aspies were able to speak.
05-23-2007, 05:53 AM
It didn't work to make a thread for it in Time Out, probably in another more inactive forum.
05-28-2007, 11:53 AM
Actually, English does not do an adequate job of allowing me to communicate those things. It should not be necessary to engage in a long explanation of them every time they need to be referenced, that's the entire point of having specific words or short phrases for them. Maybe it's effortless for you to trot out a long explanation of things whenever you need to, but language actually takes work for me and twenty to fifty words is not the equivalent of one to three.