The Reviews Are In! 

"Original!"

sUmUs cAcOOnUs responds:
I can accept original.  I can accept ab-original.  I can accept cash...if it's all the same to you.
 

Some words from the review taken completely out of context:

"Delightful...excitement...tingling...tremendous shock...psychedelic...bizarre!...originality...strange...confusing at best...extremely hilarious...you must read this to believe it....quite fascinating...mind boggling...off-beat......
....twisted.....Decidedly odd...too entirely edifying ...a site where humor and originality come together in one wonderful, harmonious blend...a must-see....break from reality.....whatever..."

sUmUs cAcOOnUs responds:
I liked "bizarre" and "strange" and "off beat" and I especially liked "twisted," and I appreciated "decidedly odd."
But then, who wouldn't?

"This language is on that site, but I'm putting it in because it's just darn hilarious!"

 sUmUs cAcOOnUs responds:
It may be hilarious to you, but it's serious business to--you're not going to buy that, are you?  Didn't think so.

"The gutteral utteral rhyming language". Invented for the purpose of being fun to pronounce; it uses rhymes a lot in its grammar; has little vocabulary of it's own; and it appears to be basically a complicated code for English...like Pig Latin from Hell."

sUmUs cAcOOnUs responds:
ellWa, yWha on'tDa ouYa ustja akeTa a-A y-ingFla eapLa up-a yMa ass-A, eh?

sUmUs cAcOOnUs responds:
There are no small vocabularies, just small speakers...with micrognathic jaws.

" Incomprehensible even in his explanations, Sumus has created a truly
                horrifying language… what would the Acadamie Fracaise think?" (See BELOW)
 
                Acceptance speech re: award to DiLingo, by sUmUs cAcOOnUs:

               Due to concurrently flowing malfeasance and serendipity, I accept your award
                for excellence! According to Fudd's law, "If you push something hard enough,
                it will fall over..." I think this irrefutable law says it all, don't you? But before
                I go off, cephalomegalic and therefore unable to pass through doors, let me
                say that living as I do, I just cannot understand why reasonable people find
                reason to people unreasonable worlds. Yea, though I walk through the valley
                of the shadow of Mattel, I will fear no Kens, and I will serve no Barbies before
                her time. In spite of the fact that this otherwise anatomically obsessed
                company denies the existence of nipples. The conspiracy unfolds that
                children's toymakers seek to replace suckling with effigies that can 't produce.
                Hence this site, as seems intuitively obvious. So what is acceptance, you ask? I
                accept this award only in one dimension, because it has no depth, width, or
                height, ...just time--I will always be in acceptance if you will allow me to have
                always accepted it, which is the only way to do it right when speaking
                correctly about the atomic clock. Oh %@!&#! (invoking the Deity), I wish I
                could express my gratitude without reckless abandon, but there you are. An
                ing or for your dolor, my friend, and always remember, it's not how you write
                the code, it's whether Bill Gates will make the code obsolete as we evolve
                closer to the point & click ideal.

                Severely yours,

                sUmUs cAcOOnUs

"Opinions: A Frank Discussion of Our Times
Opinions: My personal opinions on various subjects. [return to main] Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, The: probably mostly false, but interesting nevertheless....

Conlangs I would actually like to learn - Esperanto, Interlingua (the real Interlingua, now called LSF because some weasle stole the name - or do I have that backwards?), Eurolang, and most of all Dilingo. Plus it would be nice to learn one of my own, but it's not really worth the effort."
 
sUmUs cAcOOnUs responds:
What can I say, but, "What can I say?"?  This guy has definitely earned my mute admiration (mutated admiration).

He further goes on at Cthulhu:
"It is entertaining to decipher. That is, reading the language, as well as composing, presumably, is enjoyable because of some effect the language has on its user. The language might be extraordinarily silly, as DiLingo is; or it might be aesthetically pleasing, as Quenya tries to be; but in any case, it has some kind of overall effect on its speaker. This effect is really the core of your language, and whether it has this effect or not determines its success as an art form."

sUmUs cAcOOnUs further responds:
"Silly? Silly? I'll show you silly. A guy with a linguistics degree trying to make a living--now THAT'S silly. Managed care--also silly. Hillary Clinton from New York--need I go on? Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, Michael Jackson's vitiligo, George Hamilton's tan (ibid.), Louisiana--the state, not the song, Peace with Honor--man oh man someone stop me..."

http://www.bde.espci.fr/homepage/Christophe.Grandsire/Conlang/liens.html
"Quelques liens relatifs aux conlangsQuelques liens relatifs aux conlangs. Voici quelques liens qui me semblent dignes d'intérêt. Je les ai moi-même parcourus et le petit commentaire que je..."
 
 
La DiLingo : (en anglais)  Par sUmUs cAcOOnUs, D. E. 
     Comment décrire l'indescriptible ? Peut-être en laissant parler son auteur. Pour lui : "DiLingo is the gutteral utteral, the paradigm of rhyme, the pox of vox." C'est complètement intraduisible et donc inutile me direz-vous. Pas vraiment, car ce qui est ntéressant dans cette phrase, c'est le rythme et la rime. Et DiLingo, c'est cela, une langue rimante et rythmante, qui devrait se prononcer avec un métronome. Du point de vue de la morphologie et de la phonologie, c'est uniquement un relex de l'anglais, c'est-à-dire qu'on retrouve les mêmes catégories, noms, verbes, adjectifs, adverbes, prépositions, mêmes temps, modes et voix (au point que comme en anglais, le futur n'est pas marqué comme un temps mais avec un mot particulier). Mais l'originalité de cette langue ne réside pas dans sa syntaxe mais dans le fait que les constructions grammaticales sont faites pour rimer et rythmer. Ainsi, de nombreux mots sont dits malléables, c'est-à-dire que leur voyelle change pour rimer avec la voyelle principale du verbe, celle qui change avec le temps. Ainsi, "je fais" se dit "ing ding", mais "j'ai fait" se dit "ang dang". Beaucoup de constructions sont malléables comme cela, ou sont faites par la répétition d'éléments rythmiques (comme le comparatif et le superlatif. Ainsi, partant de "bing" : "bon", on fait "bingabing" : "meilleur" et "bingabingabing" : "le mieux"). Même le nom de la langue est malléable et on peut dire DiLingo, DaLango, DuLungo, etc... suivant ce qui rime le mieux. Enfin, ce site est rempli de jeux de mots, d'humour (parfois un peu lourd mais c'est sympa quand même), ce qui le rend parfois difficile à suivre pour ceux qui ne sont pas américains, mais c'est bien son seul défaut. Cet humour se retrouve d'ailleurs parfois dans la syntaxe de la langue, par exemple dans la formation du génitif (possesseur), qui se forme en ajoutant ~g~mm~ng (~ est la voyelle malléable) au mot possesseur, ce qui donne "mon" : "ingigimming". Cette terminaison vient évidemment de l'anglais "Gimme" qui veut dire "Donne-moi". Tout est comme ça dans ce site. Donc, allez donc y faire un tour, histoire de vous amuser un peu. 
 		 http://www.bde.espci.fr/homepage/Christophe.Grandsire/Conlang/liens.html
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 La DiLingo : (en anglais) 

 How to describe the indescribable? Maybe by letting the author speak for himself: "DiLingo is the gutteral utteral, the paradigm of rhyme, the pox of 
 vox." 
It's completely impossible to translate and therefore of no use for me 
to tell you. Not really, because what is interesting in this sentence is the rhythm and the rhyme. And DiLingo is just that, a rhyming, rhythmical language that you should speak with a metronome. From a morphology point of view, it's unique to the English language meaning that nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions are in the same time, mode and voice 
(for example in English the future tense is not marked like a tense but 
with a particular word) 
But the originality of this language does not reside in its syntax but 
in the fact that the grammatical constructions are made for rhyme and 
rhythm. Thus, words can be changed so that their vowel rhymes with the main vowel of the verb which changes with the tense. "I do" becomes "ing ding," but "I did" becomes "ang dang." Many constructions can be made like that or by repeating rhythmical elements (like the comparative and the superlative). For example from "bing" : "good", one makes "bingabing" : "better" and bingabingabing" : "the best." Even the name of the language is malleable and one can say DiLingo, DaLango, DuLungo, etc...  choosing the one that rhymes the best. 
Finally, this site is full of puns, humor (sometimes a little heavy but nice even so), which makes is sometimes difficult to follow for those who aren't American, but that's its only fault. 
This humor sometimes is in the syntax of the language, for example in 
the formation of the possessive 
which is formed by adding -g-mm-ng to the possessive word which gives us "mine" : "ingigimming." This ending evidently comes from the English "Gimme" which means "Give it to me." Everything is like that at this site.  So, go there and have a little 
fun. 

Translated by Dr. Liza Ann DiLeo, Baltimore 

sUmUs cAcOOnUs responds: 
O.K., I take back that crack I made about Jerry Lewis.  As pOrschElEss, ma pro temps femme, says, "Ubi dubius, e flagellate," which is hard to translate from the French, but goes something like, "As much fun to say as it is to eat."  sUmUs agrees:  WHO NEEDS NATO, ANYWAY!

"DiLingo is the gutteral utteral, the paradigm of rhyme, the pox of vox. Designed by Sumus Cacoonus.
Why do you do this?
Ving ding ying ding k'sing?"

sUmUs cAcOOnUs responds:
Because it's there.  Well...it's there now, thanks to me.  He wants to know why?  Why do toilets flush counter-clockwise below the equator (my Australian friends help me out here)?  Why do only white males go on mass murdering sprees?  Why did a commercial product like New Coke provoke personal reactions like anger?  Listen, fella, if I knew the answer, do you think I'd be content to sit at my keyboard as much as you do?  If you want to know why...then that's why.  Now go to your room.
  


  The Verdurians have not exactly been seeking this. After all, they live on another planet and as they say, Rho eu grurhî esë--
"It's not any of my turnips." But they have been asked to establish diplomatic relations with several nations on the planet they  call Oikumene and we, less euphoniously, the earth.
The Island of Sango Jingo--The inhabitants of Sango Jingo speak DiLingo, the guttural utteral. They are ten-dimensional beings but waste 6 or 7 of them. I think the philosopher Mick Jagger had something to say about that."

sUmUs cAcOOnUs responds:
And I told Mick not to tell anyone.  Never could hit the notes the Beatles could anyway, old wrinkled prune-faced so and so.


   
sUmUs cAcOOnUs responds:
At one time, he said,
"DiLingo is a silly English slang with very little vocabulary."
Jeffrey Henning has unwittingly added a lot of words to DiLingo by selling me his vocabulary-making engine (I highly recommend it).  I think I paid about $20 for it.  Well, with a Hamilton his way, suddenly the silly English slang became the profound English slang...the very little vocabulary became the ever-growing vocabulary.  I'm still undecided whether he could be bought like the best Louisiana politicians, or has his sarcasm been wasted on the likes of me.  Hmmm...anyhow...he gives his program away nowadays.  Da joke be's on me!
  • http://www.u.arizona.edu/~elzinga/conlang.html

    • "DiLingo: Who says that making a language has to be serious work?"

    sUmUs cAcOOnUs responds:
    If it's serous, it's usually serious; at least that's what the pathologists say.


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    http://www.spacelab.net/~dbell/conlangs.htm
    http://www.langmaker.com/
    http://www.langmaker.com/archives/199907.htm

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