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Re: THEORY: The search for the perfect language (was: RE: THEORY: French Linguistic Thinking.)

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 9, 1999, 15:03
Ed Heil wrote:
> > Sally Caves wrote: > > >... on John Dee's magic language, a whole chapter > > on John Wilkins, on his contemporaries, on philosophic languages, > > and the International Auxiliary languages. > > So is Enochian a proper conlang or a mere relex?
I would say "relex," which is why Yaguello and ilk regard Eunochian and ilk (and all other conlanging) as "glottomania" instead of an interesting science, and derive their general- izations about lunacy and demonic speaking thereby. Sally