Re: Are conlangs fictional?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, March 23, 2002, 18:55 |
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Andreas Johansson wrote:
> In plenty of SF/F books, the characters are supposedly speaking another
> language than that the book is written in. Yet, all that exists of these
> languages is very commonly a number of more or less systematically formed
> names. This is what I'd call a "fictional language".
Or even less than that, they say they speak in, say, "Galactic" but
never give a single word in this language, and the names are often
modern Earth names or slight modifications thereof. That's about as
fictional as you can get.
BTW, did Tolkien ever actually invent Westron?
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