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Re: Are conlangs fictional?

From:Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...>
Date:Sunday, March 24, 2002, 12:57
Nicolí nathsakwish:
>obconlang: how do people's conlangs make the distinction between >fiction and reality? narethanaal doesn't really make any >distinction... probably because, for me, the line is rather fuzzy... >and perhaps a little blue...
You sound like Delirium from Neil Gaiman's Sandman series. Anyway, my languages would probably each have affixes or particles to classify things as rumored, definitely false, definitely true, etc. (I haven't had cause to make them yet.) Fictionality would be in there. The not-quite-real Chris Wright http://gareis.free.fr/langs.html