Re: Constructive linguistics

Sai wrote:
> ... or for others whose universities are liberal enough to allow it,
> start your own conlanging class.
>
> (Are Berkeley and Stanford unique WRT this?)
Nope, if one counts classes dedicated to teaching (historical)
linguistics through Tolkienian languages.  When I left UT (before
the first movie came out), they had one going, and when I got to
Chicago after some fuss they got one started. ("Fuss", because
some faculty didn't think it was theoretical enough.  Then when
it had a relatively huge enrollment of 30 students, it was more
difficult to complain.)

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