Re: Introduction to FourHorse

Shreyas Sampat wrote:
>I would be tempted to say that the Orcs actually have a language that's
>wholly human at first glance, but did not develop from any human language.
>
>On nonhuman tongues in general:
>These seem to be rare birds in the conlang world.
Are they? I've seen quite a few Elvish, Goblinoid, Orkish or whatever
Fantasy conlangs.

>How many are there flying
>around?
Plenty, I'd say.

>At one point I had a conlang for very long-lived beings who had a longevity
>gender system; humans fell under 'transient', the same category as mayflies
>and sea turtles.  I lost my otes on it, though.
Something that to me seems to be rare are specifically "alien" conlangs.
There's of course Klingon, but not too much else.

Personally, I'm not too tempted to try and construct one, since it'd
inevitably get too human too be really believeable. Elves, say, are as
they're normally envisioned very close to humans as far as physiology,
psychology etc are concerned. The same goes for Klingon, but hardly for real
extraterrestrials, if they do exist and have something recognizeable as
language.

                                                 Andreas
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