Re: Fakelangs

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, And Rosta <a.rosta@V...> 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.
Exactly, that's what I meant.  Maybe we should call them
fictlangs (a bit too generic) or lostlangs (though not all
of them are necessarily lost).  How about verilang, after
the primary goal of verisimilitude?


-- Christian Thalmann

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