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Re: Musical conlangs (was: Poetique)

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Monday, January 12, 2004, 12:19
Staving Andreas Johansson:
>Quoting Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>: > > > > > While some are certainly practical, others are > > > IMO rather bizarre - and this is one such. > > > > Well, perhaps not so bizarre as all that. > > Solresol was invented around 1817 or so - there > > were no radios, barely any steam ships. Intership > > communications consisted pretty much of > > semaphores, flares and shouting. > >Firing cannons and waving flags were also pretty common. (The former grantedly >mostly for the simplest of messages.) >
Such as "Take that, you filthy swine!" Pete