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Re: (1) I'm Back!!! (2) Thank You All!! (3) I Need Your Help!

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Saturday, April 12, 2003, 6:57
 --- Roger Mills [Dutch: Rogier van der Molen] skrzypszy:

> DP What's more, he wants me to suggest topics of study and assignments, > 1.) Are there any books we could use? I can think of parts of many books > that'd be helpful to photocopy, but there's no real conlang textbook (yet).
Well, last week I bought an interesting book about the early history of conlanging: M.M. Slaughter, "Universal language and scientific taxonomy in the seventeenth century" (Cambridge, 1982). I haven't even started to read it yet, but it looks like it is full of information about Bacon, Comenius, Wilkins, Dalgarno, Newton, and others. Does somebody know this book? In general, I think "History of conlanging" could be an important component of such a course, starting from Hildegard von Bingen, via the 17th century guys, Zamenhof, Tolkien, etc, to our times.
> As examples of Really Well Done Conlangs, they should look at Brithenig; > M.Pearson's Tokana; D.Elzinga's Tepa; David Bells Amman Iar (ergative!); Jan > van S.'s Hattic and Wenedyk (sorry for misspellings) and maybe <teeny-tiny > print> Kash???? But as we know, there's hundreds more, and I apologize for > not mentioning them all!!
Wow, I'm flattered! I can't see any misspelling, except for the fact that Dirk's Tepa is now called "Miamipoquitch" (I hope I got that right). Yan Suranjakra. ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer

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