>
> You know, I'd really like to create an "Inadvertent Conlangers
> Webpage"... I've so often come across people who are doing conlanging
> or something like it but are under the delusion or are determined to
> convince people that what they create is real. There should be a
> "hall of fame" for them.
>
> That fellow who's reconstructing Proto-World would get a page, for
> example. I have come across more than one article in one of my
> favorite magazines, Fortean Times, which describes someone who
> qualifies... Also the forger of the "Manios me fhefheked numasioi"
> fibula, for creating a false text in reconstructed proto-Latin. And
> maybe the fellow who produced an entire reconstructed Ionic Iliad,
> "restoring" an original of the poem which never existed, based on now
> discredited theories of the history of the text... though that's
> perhaps a borderline case.
>
> I fear, though, that such a page would emphasize the "Lunatic"
> impression of conlangers that Yaguello promotes and that so frustrates
> Sally.
>
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> edheil@postmark.net
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>
> Sally Caves wrote:
>
> > Nik Taylor wrote:
> > >
> > > Ed Heil wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Fascinating tidbit from the article on Nu Shu:
> > > >
> > > > "The penalty for creating new languages was death for the
> > > > transgressor, their family and nine related families. "
> > >
> > > Wow! I guess we can all be glad that isn't true today, eh? :-)
> >
> > I was about to say "Wow!" too. Conlang Persecution! Worse than
> > calling us lunatics. Speaking of which, who has read Paul Auster's
> > _The New York Trilogy_? I heard/read somewhere that one of its
> > three novellas is about a man who goes crazy inventing a language.
> > Am I getting this mixed up with something else? It seems Auster-ish
> > to do this... after all, in _The Music of Chance_ he has an immense
> > miniature town, built by lunatics. I've got the book, I guess I
> > could crack it. But if I don't find it, I will wonder where I heard
> > this.
> >
> > Sally
> >
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> > SALLY CAVES
> > scaves@frontiernet.net
> >
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves (bragpage)
> >
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teonaht.html (T. homepage)
> >
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/contents.html (all else)
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> > Niffodyr tweluenrem lis teuim an.
> > "The gods have retractible claws."
> > from _The Gospel of Bastet_
> > ============================================================