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Re: Conlangs in History

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Sunday, August 20, 2000, 21:11
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

> There's this great book I used to have around, 'Atlantis: The Antediluvian World' > written by Ignatius Donnelly in the 1880s or so. It was great reading! I really loved > the theory that the Basques and the Iroquois were related because they had originally > been colonists of the Atlantean Empire. He was quite serious about it. Donnelly > went to great lengths to show that Basque and 'Iroquois' were also related to > 'Native American'. It was like the written equivalent of a magic show or > somethin'. Real entertaining!
Ah yes, the Sage of Nininger. He also invented (or at least greatly improved and popularized) the theory that Shakespeare was Bacon and that the plays are really a cipher telling Bacon's true life story. O Falstaff, wert thou truly born for *this*?! -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux, de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"