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

 --- 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.

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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones

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