Re: a 12th century conlang
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, March 24, 1999, 3:09 |
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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"?