Re: Fakelangs

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristan Mc Leay"

Sally krespr:
> > I have to say I love this idea of a "fake" natlang.  Put me on board!
Tristan:
> To be honest, I always thought this was half the point of conlanging;
To fool people into thinking these are natural languages? :)

> Discussions of Ancient Føtisk would refer to
> discoveries of ancient documents from the  (Though rather than citing
> works in English or Italian or whatever, most of the fakeworks I'd
> considering referring to were going to be in Føtisk.)
If I hadn't been so enthused about CONLANG, I might have considered putting
Teonaht on-line as a real but somewhat obscure language.  The T. however
have too many bizarre properties, though, to convince anyone.  I might list
some reference works, though!  That would be fun.  :D

> > http://www.frontiernet.net/~whatsteo.html
>  >
>  > Some visitors to my website have thought Teonaht was a real language.
>
> Hmm... well, that page seems very similar to English+HTTP/1.x error
> messages (specifically 404). Actually, the server is perhaps acting up
> (acting down?), <http://www.frontiernet.net/> has a dearth of data.
It's my own brain fog and bad typing.  try:
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/whatsteo.html

Sally