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Re: a 12th century conlang

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 24, 1999, 3:09
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:50:36 -0800, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
wrote:

>Yes indeed. I mentioned her in my talk about all us guys, theone I gave=
in
>Florida a few days ago. She, or someone else, >apparently collected a list of nouns, 1011 of them, in something >called the _Lingua Ignota_. These range from God >and His angels to the lowly cricket.
Mizarian mice, on the other hand, revere crickets. Of course, in Disney's rendition of _Pinocchio_, the distinction between "angel" and "cricket" = is somewhat blurred.
>in _Exemplaria_ 3.2 October (1991): 267-298. I critiqued >his "generalizations" about invented languages; he's too ready >to modify his findings with words like "always" and "never": ex. >"Every imaginary language is a _bricolage_."
Hmm, I can't find that word in my French dictionary, which probably means= I need a better one. What does he mean by "bricolage"?