Re: Presentation on Language Creation

Michael Poxon wrote:


 >Mm. I suppose what virtually all conlangs have in common is an alliance with
science fiction and/or fantasy which, whether we like it or not, is seen as
somehow "not proper academic serious literature" and so is marginalised or left
to geekdom.
    
 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), 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.)
    
 >...Green Children of Woolpit (in Suffolk, not too far from here) relates how
the two children spoke an unintelligible language, but unfortunately we aren't
given any examples!
    
 Someone, I think on Langmaker a couple years ago, mentioned there were two
teen-aged girls in his building who spoke a private language-- but they were
leary of sharing with outsiders, so no examples there either......

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