Re: What stories have influenced your conlanging?

On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 01:38:45PM -0700, Sai Emrys wrote:

> For me, /Story of Your Life/ by Ted Chiang
> <http://heptapod.org/storylife.html>. The language it describes,
> Heptapod B, is almost exactly what I'd like to make: a non-linear 2d
> writing system.
I love that story!  Thanks for pointing out that it's online.  (It's
nice, in a nonchronological sort of way, to know that I'd now know about
the story even if I didn't own the anthology it's printed in!)

Yep, every time somebody on here tries to make a 2D language, that is
the one I think of.

As for stories that have influenced my conlanging?  That would really
only be the original inspirations: Tolkien (but not so much his stories
as his backstory), and LeGuin's Always Coming Home.  I can't think now
of any other story-based influences.  Lots of linguistics-based and
other-conlang-based influences, though.

Amanda