--- Paul Burgess skrzypszy:
> This map was soon abandoned, and the whole "Mercurian"
> scenario was left far behind. But the language caught
> fire and became an obsession for me. The name of the
> language was eventually changed from "Mercurian" to
> "Hermetic"-- I guess, jumping from the Roman god Mercury
> to the Greek god Hermes.
Hehe. I was under the assumption that the language was called "Hermetic"
because you worked on it only behind hermetically closed doors ;)
> There did develop a whole cluster of Hermetic
> concultures-- sometimes partially overlapping, sometimes
> not, and sometimes it's hard to tell-- but none of them
> had anything to do with the planet Mercury.
Interesting. Did you develop dialects as well?
> As for being blown away by discovering other conlangers
> out there-- yeah, it's been nearly three weeks now, and
> I still haven't managed to wrap my mind around the
> reality of it... :)
Ah, you'll get used to it eventually. After a year of being an active
participant, you might even cease to understand how on Earth it is possible
that there are people in the world who *don't* conlang :))
Just check out Daniel's http://www.conlanglinks.tk . I think it also contains
links to many individual conlangs.
Jan
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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones
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