Re: Wilkins' philosophical language in the news

En réponse à Tim May :


>(As the URL suggests, it's a Flash animation, so you may want to skip
>it.)  Inside the site, there's a letter from Stephenson which talks in
>part about the message, and how and why it was written.
>
>http://www.baroquecycle.com/letter1.htm
>
>There's a link from that page to one by Todd Garrison, who was the
>first person on the web to decipher the message. (There's a still
>image on that page, if you skipped the flash but wanted to look at
>it.)
Well, all this is very interesting! :) I didn't know this author. Has
anybody already read his other books? For what I've read on that webpage,
he seems to have the writing style and inspiration of an American Umberto
Eco. But I may be wrong, having never heard of this guy before.

>[1]  Well, _relatively_ famous.  Borges wrote an essay about it, and
>it's been mentioned here more than once.
Well, I knew the Caractéristique Universelle of Leibniz, which is based on
equivalent principles, but this one I don't remember hearing about it.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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