Re: Learning to conlang to write better english!

Does that make Constructed Languages the counter-factuals of language
study?

:)

On Saturday 04 June 2005 06:48, Thomas Wier wrote:

> Incidentally, it appears to be less the case outside linguistics
> proper.  Yesterday at our end-of-year departmental barbecue, I was
> speaking to John Goldsmith, and he mentioned that Stanley Fish,
> the famous Miltonist and scholar of 17th-century English literature,
> also taught a course on introductory linguistics through the medium
> of constructed languages.  I think departments are realizing that
> constructed languages are a real way to bring in students who would
> otherwise not ever find any interest in the field, that it's a good
> way to channel students into the theoretical study of natural
> languages.
- andrew.
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