Re: Conlangs in History

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"