Re: Esperanto film (was Re: Meta-History of Atlantean)

Matt:
> "Quest for Fire", a film from the early 80s about an encounter
> between two groups of prehistoric humans, a primitive cave-dwelling
> group and a more advanced hunter-gatherer group (possibly meant to
> be Neanderthals and homo sapiens sapiens, respectively).  Although
> there isn't much dialogue in the film at all, what little dialogue
> there is is in conlangs--a simple grunting language for the
> Neanderthals, and a more complex 'modern' language for the homo
> sapiens sapiens.  The languages were constructed by Anthony Burgess,
> author of "A Clockwork Orange" and an occasional dabbler in conlanging.
Do you know of any Burgess conlang dabbling apart from Nadsat and
the Quest for Fire? I don't, neither in his published works nor in
his nonliterary life. Yet I may have overlooked or forgotten something.

--And.

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