Re: Presentation on Language Creation

Hello,

> When I talked about it, I started at Lingua Ignota,
> made my way through Volapük and Esperanto and spawn,
> kowtowed to Tolkien as the grand poohbah of the
> artlang movement (and its implications in his conculturing),
> nodded to Okrand and other relatively commercial successes,
> and touched on some of the langs on this list, including
> (as a shameless self-promoting conlang whore) my own.
When I did a presentation this spring, I started with a classification
(partly stolen from Rick Harrison, of course), then moved on to tolkien
(who is my pet peeve, so I talked quite a lot about him), then I took
Klingon and contrasted the two, then moved on to the Conlang list (BTW I
thanked all the subscribers for their unstinting support... Now y'all
know :)). I talked a bit about Brithenig and Ill Bethisad and Lojban.
Then I spoke about general cultural implications, tried (rather
successfully I think) to fit conlanging into Huizinga's culture-as-game
scheme and talked about sundry conceptions of language in archaic
cultures, concluding that conlanging is as good a part of culture as
any.

During the presentation I 'talked' some Quenya (some longish phrases),
Klingon (seceral extracts from _Hamlet_) and Brithenig (Yn nediwn seint
yn llinghedig...). The conference rules required a written version of
the paper, so I included some Babel texts, which seemed to impress
everyone greatly.

Hope this helps.

Pavel
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