Re: Let Me Introduce Myself

En réponse à David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>:

> In a message dated 11/26/01 2:31:10 AM, hkato@DIANA.DTI.NE.JP writes:
>
> << I have a book on conlang movement - " Der Kamph gegen Babel" by
> Paulo
> Ronai >>
>
>     There's a book on conlang?!  Had anyone else heard of this?  Are
> there
> any others?
>
I've heard about it, but IIRC it's more about the Auxlang movement than the
conlang movement (most people who are not conlangers fail to see the difference
usually anyway). As for other books about conlanging, unfortunately the only
ones I can think about are quite negative about it. I think Umberto Eco wrote
one once, and in it failed to see the difference between conlanging
and "speaking in tongues" (or glossolalia, but I may be wrong), and there is
also the infamous book of Marina Yaguello (is it her name?) "Fous du langage"
(I don't remember the English title). Ask Sally Caves about it, she knows quite
a lot. She wrote a presentation about conlanging mostly in reaction to this
book. You can also ask Mathias (Kala Tunu) about it, he read it in the French
version.

Christophe.

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