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.)