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Re: Presentation on Language Creation

From:Tim May <butsuri@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 1, 2002, 22:47
Roger Mills writes:
 >
 >     True.  Bits and pieces of language throught the stuff, not all
 >     of the "lots of x's, q's and v's and lots of apostrophes=
 >     exotic" school of thought.  Ursula Le Guin is one of the best--
 >     Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed (a con-auxlang, even),

I don't think Pravic's strictly speaking an auxlang, as most Anarresti
don't speak anything else.  But certainly a con-conlang.

 >     Always Coming Home e.g., and possibly some con-Slavic in the
 >     Malafrena stories. (Hey-- a UC connection, she's the daughter
 >     of A.L. Kroeber, still highly respected in Anthro/Ling.)