Re: Fakelangs

And Rosta wrote:

> Danny:
>
>>From: "Christian Thalmann" <cinga@...>
>>
>>>(Feel free to coin a better word for "fakelangs"...)
>>
>>First thing that came to mind was 'altlang', short for 'alternative
>>history language' or 'alternative Earth language'. Or is that already
>>taken?
>
> I had supposed that Christian was describing not 'altlangs' (or,
> as David Peterson called them, 'histlangs') but rather languages
> whose description is part of the greater fiction. So, for example,
> the description of Kinya is (or at least was) replete with full
> scholarly apparatus, footnotes, bibliography (whose entries are
> fictional). The fiction surrounding the description of Miapimoquitch
> is so convincing that it can and has deceived people into believing
> it to be real.
>
> In the field of Alternate History, a famous exemplar of this sort
> of thing is Robert Sobel's _For want of a nail_: it reads like an
> ordinary scholarly work of history.
Sort of like a nihilartikel?

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