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Re: Presentation on Language Creation

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 1, 2002, 11:52
En réponse à bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...>:

> > surely someone must have come up with theories of > earlier conlangs, even if there's no evidence >
Of course! Everybody knows that the very first language, the language of Adam and Eve, was a conlang created by God himself ;))) .
> i can just see someone ( real or fictional ) making a > whole academic career of trying to prove that some > isolate, say euskara, is actually the result of a > conlang/auxlang/lignua ignota of some social, racial > or religious group which subsequently gained currency > . . . ? ! >
I don't know why but Sumerian popped up in my mind when you mentioned that... Is it possible that someone spent his/her career trying to prove that Sumerian was actually an artificial language? Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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Tim May <butsuri@...>