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Re: THEORY: Conlanging as reverse Sapir-Whorf?

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Saturday, November 27, 1999, 20:25
Jeffrey Henning scripsit:

> I have the very real feeling with Dublex that I did not invent it, only > discover it [...]. It is almost as if someone else invented Dublex and was > trying to communicate it to me subliminally.
Both James Cooke Brown and Bob LeChevalier have spoken of "the little Lo(gl|jb)anists in their heads" that tell them what is and what is not the language. Much of my work writing the Lojban reference grammar was extracting that implicit knowledge from Bob's head. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin