And wrote :
> Original French: _Foux de langage_
> English (published Athlone in UK, c. 1990): _Lunatic lovers of
> language: Imaginary languages and their inventors.
>
Now I remember that book : I found and read it in the Centre Beaubourg library. I
was 16 and this was the first and last book I read about conlangs. I
(mis)understood from the book that conlanging was a kind of madness and was so
terrified by that discovery that I went to a hospital and asked a psychologist
for a therapy. Although he told me he could not find anything wrong with me,
from that day on and until I found conlangers on the net I've been thinking I
was mentally defective. So I hope other young conlangers do not misread her
book.
> I don't know of any other books about conlangs that cover more than
> IALs. For IALs, there's Andrew Large's _The artificial language
> movement_. Then there are books on Tolkien's lgs (though up to date
> stuff is only on the web).
>
> More extensive bibliographies can be provided by Rick Harrison and
> Claudio Gnoli who both have a (to me, extraordinary) talent for
> collating bibliographies and that sort of thing.
>
> --And.
>
>
I perused the conlang archives and found interesting stuff I had missed. Thanks
Mathias
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