Re: CHAT: Happy Conlang day!

Jörg:
<<
It was a different server back then, though, and apparently,
an informal network of people exchanging e-mails about
conlangs and conlanging existed at least for several weeks
before that.
 >>

That would seem to be the case.  In that message, Ronald writes:

<<
Glad to see the mailing list is working.
 >>

Rather presumptuous unless he saw that it was already
working (i.e., there was at least one post before his).

Regarding the content, I'm not sure if Pale Fire was a commentary
on Esperanto, but I bet the idea of creating the Zemblan language
(and the mania associated with such an inventor) might have
been inspired by the IAL movement.  Zemblan itself, of course,
doesn't look like an IAL at all.  In fact, with what words we see,
it's a rather plausible hypothetical member of the Slavic language
family--at least from what I remember.  I should give it another
read.  I wonder if anyone's posted a wordlist online...

Well, unless I'm missing something, there isn't.  I'm rather
surprised, because it shouldn't be that difficult to go through
the book and note each Zemblan word, and then to put it on
a webpage somewhere.  There aren't many words, and the
book and author are rather popular.

-David
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