Re: Introduction to FourHorse

Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> wrote:
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> Something that to me seems to be rare are specifically "alien" conlangs.
> There's of course Klingon, but not too much else.
    That's my cue to mention Gladilatian, the language of an alien species
who appear in some fiction I'm writing.

> Personally, I'm not too tempted to try and construct one, since it'd
> inevitably get too human too be really believeable.
    That's of course a problem with anything to do with aliens, especially
since we have no examples of aliens to compare with and thus no way of
really knowing just how nonhuman an alien language has to be to be
believable.

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             Dennis Paul Himes    <>    dennis@himes.connix.com
             homepage: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/dennis.htm
        Gladilatian page: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/glad/lang.htm

Disclaimer: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle
brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as
the air."                      - Romeo & Juliet, Act I Scene iv Verse 96-99