I want to create a kind of new monster language for kids to play with, pick up, and incorporate into their own vocabularies.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!
One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.
I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.
Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.
I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar.
The goal is to make something that sounds new and different.
Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.
I want to be open to the kids who only speak Spanish, the kids who speak only Spanglish, and the kids who don't even speak Spanish at all.