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:
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> 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