Look at the following words:
Heilongjiang
Kamikochi
Folgefonna
Most of us don't know what any of this means, but we could tell what language it is. These language evolved over time and have developed there own sounds (though you could easily make a natural-like language). Autlang is just a collection of three letter words. The word for input is "das"; the word for in is "pin" for example.
Though we don't have the means to see whether LFAs learn Autlang faster, I'm skeptical. If using Autlang you have to memorize hundreds of unrelated 2-4 letter long words, as opposed to larger words that can (not for one word of course) be broken down into a few dozen words with maybe 10-15 used quite often.
What about putting some kind of original system into it so that is more exciting?
What do you mean by exciting?
Interesting and fascinating, English speakers may not use the same words to illustrate than me as a norwegian.
Yes, but how making it more exciting improve autlangs problems? We can't make it more exciting to eveyone.
I was thinking about a system that not necessarily was there to make parts of the languge self-evident, but tht would be nice, just that there's some kind of system that people can try to understand.
Pakrat: You are saying no maybe to Paradox's explanation of it. Think more generally about it (my opinion). Think about a language or just plain "communication" between aspies that would make it easier to understand what a person tries to "communicate".
Like for example our prehistoric people of the stoneage, like ie. "I've found water, come with me". "I've found a safe place (home)". "Come let's hunt".
To be perfectly honest, this doesn't seem to be a good idea.
Autlang in general I guess.
I mean I'm very fond of making up languages, don't get me wrong (I have one that is based on Western Germanic), but after looking at the words of autlang and the logic behind it, it really doesn't make any sense and it just comes off as being silly. Plus, what's the point?
It would be neat if we had our own dialect of English, though. That I would kind of support.
I find autlang REALLY confusing...like seriously i've read the autlang posts and I dont think I could ever learn any of it, the patterns are just so foreign and...er it just makes my brain itch when im reading it cause the patterns are so irriatatingly illogical...Im not saying English is a logical language language either. Isnt there an artifical language already made thats supposedly really easy to learn?! I cant think of the name right now though/.
Que? Sounds as if you are talking about cooking rice.
I wanna know more about the grammar of autlang: Is it agglutinative?What about ergativity?
It seems to me that aspies would probably be better at speaking agglutinative languages with extreme combinatorial complexity as opposed to tonal languages(like chinese) or other indo-european toungues.
I assume autlangs grammar wasn't given any thought given it's haphazard construction; it's probably similar to English.
I've mostly been staying out of the idea of whether autlang should exist, because I'm not good at learning languages like that and unlikely to benefit from it.
But I still would like to see (perhaps as an additional project) short words or phrases in English that can be used to succinctly describe a number of experiences common among autistic people. My personal preference is that they not sound medical or like jargon or buzzwords or psychobabble and that they not be basically tacked-together Greek word-roots, but that's, again, personal. (I have often an aversion to the first three kinds of words and an inability to comprehend the fourth.)