Talking Rock in a Funlang

This is a new, unnamed funlang. It is an experiment in topic – comment with only intransitive predicates. So each full sentence is only two words and two words only. Pronouns include one that refers to the topic of the previous sentence (SAME) and one that refers to the comment of the previous sentence (COMMENT). It might even be non-recursive, but not being a theoretician, I won’t swear to that.

I was walking.

This was yesterday.

And this was on the shore.

And this was interrupted.

I tripped.

This (tripping) was on a rock.

This (the rock) might talk.

I picked something up.

And I spoke.

The rock was in hand.

And it was spoken to.

I said something.

This (what was said) was a question.

This was as follows.

Is this a rock?

And it speaks?

And it said something.

This was as follows.

A rock I am.

And I speak.

I said something.

This was as follows.

I was not spoken to.

You did not speak.

And you did not say something.

This was possibly as follows.

I should watch out.

This (watching out) would be for you.

It replied.

This was as follows.

A rock I am.

And I speak.

And I am mean.

This is the reason.

The speech caused anger.

This (anger) was in me.

And was the reason.

This was for the following.

I threw something.

It (the rock) was thrown.

And it was in the ocean.

I did not see (something) again.

It (the rock) was not seen again.

I like the repetitiveness of otherwise transitive verbs. It amuses me.

I also like the fact that speak and spoken to are different, unrelated words. And that the converse of pick up is be in hand.

I like that pronouns come in two sets: new and previously mentioned. With regular nouns, this is accomplished by using noun plus classifier for a new mention and the classifier only as a previous mention.

I am a bit worried about the lack of clarity in where a quote ends. Adding something like “saying finished” might work, but it would probably involve repeating the noun tani-ya rather than just ya, which I don’t like.

The comment words ought to be less cleanly agglutinative, at least when it comes to multiple suffixes, those should blend a bit more, maybe.

What do you think?

I will do the Eye Juggler next, and then maybe the South Wind and the Sun. Short texts become such long texts that I am not sure I dare tackle the longer texts that I usually use.