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Re: Conlangs in History

From:Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...>
Date:Friday, August 18, 2000, 23:11
In a message dated 2000/08/18 05:31:06 PM, Dirk wrote:

>Hitler wrote _Mein Kampf_ in the Black Speech. William Blake wrote his >mystical poetry in Lingua Ignota. Beethoven's sketchbooks were kept in >Speedwords. Jane Austin and Tsolyani. Bertrand Russell and AllNoun. > >Hey, this is kind of fun.
Too bad poet Thomas Merton didn't write in various pidgin languages of the South Pacific in his last two epic poems (_Cables to the Ace_ and _Logogria_ {sp?})... Merton is the first writer to get me intrigued with pidgins. Also too bad sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick didn't invent more of his ConLang (i.e. CitySpeak). [I kinda wish more sci-fi writers were into futuristic ConLangs, esp'ly pidgins & creoles, futuristic Englishes, Spanishes, Chineses, and Hindis & various mixes of some and all... etc.] ... well back to my futuristic ConLang Lingwa Frakas (which is shapin' up nicely to bein' a "mutani Inglis-Romanico-lingwa jarigonzo pidjin" <<mutant English-Romance slang pidgin>>) zHANg