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Re: Conlangs as secret communication styles

From:<deinx nxtxr> <deinx.nxtxr@...>
Date:Monday, December 22, 2008, 1:07
> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Gary Shannon
> > Has anybody on the list created a "secret language" such as this? > > Pre-personal computers, and certainly pre-Internet, I used my > pictographic language to write my personal diary. It wasn't > that I put any effort into keeping it secret, it was simply > that nobody I knew was at all interested in conlangs in > general, or my pictographs in particular. So it was "secret" > by default.
I've never kept any type of journal, but I've thought about using Deini for writing things like notes to myself. That's only a secret to those that don't know the language is posted on the web. Too bad I can't put the Deini script on my Blackberry.