Re: Is conlang a generator of conlangers? or a sustainer? (was: Oops!)
From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
Date: | Friday, October 9, 1998, 8:06 |
>Now that I think of it, I've had other literary influences. Particularly
>Philip Josi Farmer. Have you read anything by him? His greatest work, the
>Riverworld saga, features the whole human race resurrected along the coast
>of a 16-million-km river in an artificial planet. The problem of communication
>is terrible. He talks a lot about it. After a few years, most of humanity is
>speaking a debased dialectal form of Esperanto...
>
>
>--Pablo Flores
>
I read it. A great work (5 books in French translation)! And very
good for the Esperanto movement (imagine, billions of people speaking
Esperanto!). I bought it by chance (there was a week of book-selling in the
store where my mother works, and she advised me to buy some -there was a
free book every 3 books bought, I bought 7 books and had 2 free ones-) but I
loved it immediately. I think it caused me to learn Esperanto. I must
prepare myself for my future life in the Riverworld!
Christophe Grandsire
|Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.
homepage: http://www.bde.espci.fr/homepage/Christophe.Grandsire/index.html