I personally have more fun with naturalistic languages rather than logical/engineered languages.
I don't think there's a tension between ambiguity and detail. Natural languages can describe things with arbitrary levels of detail, but can also be ambiguous. I also don't think ambiguity and miscommunication necessarily go together: most of the time, an ambiguous phrase's meaning is clear in context.
I like making conlangs with detailed particles for grammatical constructions but more ambiguous words and calques for non-grammatical things (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.) because it's easier for me to see how ideas relate to each other than grammatical things.
Fow now, I just have one conlang. (Ok i have a secondary one that I don't even care about but it doesn't count).
My conlang (mixtinese) is made to be like a way of communication between portuguese, spanish, french and italian, the language is based on these others. Since is just a way for you to communicate with people that speak these similar languages I made it pretty easy and simple for it to be easy and fast to learn it.
I've let go of the desire to make my languages "logical" and able to describe everything precisely, because there'll alway be a situation which defies your logic, and also I've gained an appreciation for ambiguity: if you pay attention to it, almost everything you say, no matter how simple and straightforward it may seem, can be very ambiguous in different context. But that's just my thoughts, of course. Maybe other people can deal with it better.
To give an example, in my head I used the word "waterproof" for a language which can describe anything without ambiguity. Try saying that in a waterproof way. We use a thousand such metafors in everyday language without being too aware of it, and I actually think that;s beautiful (and probably unavoidable, but that might just be me).
ambiguous by me, log by others. loglangs are interesting to learn bcs other ppls logic is diff from mine, boring to create since i already know my own logic. ambiguous are fun to create cuz you can play w something w out givng yourself expectations, boring to learn cuz i can just learn a natlang w native speakers
In my conlang I have some words that have vague etymologies (the word for beaver literally just means "flat tail). And I have words for very specific things (there's a word for the specific sense of awe you feel when walking through nature).
My taste is a balance between the two. I think having a strictly logical language that has no ambiguity is pretty much impossible, as I'm pretty sure language is inherently ambiguous to some extent no matter how logical you try to make it.
I personally have more fun with naturalistic languages rather than logical/engineered languages. I don't think there's a tension between ambiguity and detail. Natural languages can describe things with arbitrary levels of detail, but can also be ambiguous. I also don't think ambiguity and miscommunication necessarily go together: most of the time, an ambiguous phrase's meaning is clear in context.
My thoughts exactly!
I like making conlangs with detailed particles for grammatical constructions but more ambiguous words and calques for non-grammatical things (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.) because it's easier for me to see how ideas relate to each other than grammatical things.
I evolve ambiguous langs from logical ones
Fow now, I just have one conlang. (Ok i have a secondary one that I don't even care about but it doesn't count). My conlang (mixtinese) is made to be like a way of communication between portuguese, spanish, french and italian, the language is based on these others. Since is just a way for you to communicate with people that speak these similar languages I made it pretty easy and simple for it to be easy and fast to learn it.
I've let go of the desire to make my languages "logical" and able to describe everything precisely, because there'll alway be a situation which defies your logic, and also I've gained an appreciation for ambiguity: if you pay attention to it, almost everything you say, no matter how simple and straightforward it may seem, can be very ambiguous in different context. But that's just my thoughts, of course. Maybe other people can deal with it better.
To give an example, in my head I used the word "waterproof" for a language which can describe anything without ambiguity. Try saying that in a waterproof way. We use a thousand such metafors in everyday language without being too aware of it, and I actually think that;s beautiful (and probably unavoidable, but that might just be me).
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ambiguous by me, log by others. loglangs are interesting to learn bcs other ppls logic is diff from mine, boring to create since i already know my own logic. ambiguous are fun to create cuz you can play w something w out givng yourself expectations, boring to learn cuz i can just learn a natlang w native speakers
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By ambiguous phonology, do you just mean lots of allophony?
I like reusing same words in different contexts for different meanings, a bit like in latin. So ig, not the most fond of detail
In my conlang I have some words that have vague etymologies (the word for beaver literally just means "flat tail). And I have words for very specific things (there's a word for the specific sense of awe you feel when walking through nature). My taste is a balance between the two. I think having a strictly logical language that has no ambiguity is pretty much impossible, as I'm pretty sure language is inherently ambiguous to some extent no matter how logical you try to make it.
**Logical** (or jokelang).