Man With His Head in a Box!

I am less than 3 pages from the end of the original script that I am rewriting. I am very excited because that means that I am almost done with it. When I am done with the rewrite of the story, I can work on converting it back into screenplay.

But knowing that I am almost done; seeing the end of the road, the other side of the rainbow, I managed to get myself distracted as usual. Fortunately, this time I got distracted with something that has to do with the story. And although I was sure that I would be done with the rewrite tonight I let another element distract. So now I will not be done until tomorrow. But let me tell you about what distracted me. Because I am very excited about it.
About a year ago, I guess. I'm sure that it was less than a year ago because I lived at the other place and I was only in that lease for a year. So, about a year ago when I was on revision #2 of my script's back story I decided that I would try my hand at conlanging. For those of you who may not know, conlanging is the art of "constructing a language." If you are familiar with movies such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy or tv shows like Star Trek, you may already have heard other writers' conlanging. It is the business of writing a language that does not already exist. Elfish, Ramulan, Klingon. You know, stuff that forty year old virgins are made of.
Anyway, I am not a forty year old virgin. Well, I haven't been a virgin in a while, and I'm not quite forty but writing is a passion and writing a language makes for a wonderful challenge. I at first wrote "made for a wonderful challenge" but it is an ongoing process. You will likely ever have a library of vocabulary that includes the entire scope of words in your mother language.
So, I wrote this language for 2 reasons. The first was that I had studied so many languages that all had their own positive points but many things about them make me crazy. For instance, German and its many cases and articles. Or Welsh and its crazy sentence structure. So I created a language that completely lacked those difficulties that have stumped me on each successive language I have studied.
The second reason that I wrote this language is to add a different dimension to the script that I am writing. The back story involves ancient folks, magic and other stuff that made me think that it would be wonderfully appropriate to have a constructed language as part of the script.
So, what distracted me was that got to a point in my script, the third or fourth point probably, where I would need to use the language. So I got a hold of the notebook in which I wrote the language and started translating dialogue. I did not intend on writing the whole script in this language. Just key dialogue. But most specifically, a song that is sung several times.
The song was originally a poem that I wrote for Writer's Digest.com's April's poem of the day, day 30. I took out a few lines out of it to make it shorter and I have started translating it. It's very exciting. But now I have to finish writing the story tomorrow.
And now I bet you're wondering what inspired this language. You're going to laugh. You know that geni from Pee Wee's playhouse? The one with his head in a box? You remember when he would say Mekalekhay mekahaineeho? I created a language based on that silly little phrase. It combines elements of Spanish, German, Japanese and Arabic. It borrows and adapts words from Spanish and German. It uses Arabic's word structure and a lot of Japanese pronunciation and concepts. It flows the way that I would like to hear a language and is easy to learn, I believe. And if any of you have ever read my myspace blog, you had to know that this one would eventually revert back to dialogue involving Pee Wee Herman. And I'm sure you know that it won't be the last.