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

On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, 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?
>
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>
I, as someone who has studied Enochian, would have to say a relex, and not
a very good one at that.  There are some things that *look* like
inflection, but really aren't.  They're just random, as far as I can see.