Re: Let Me Introduce Myself
| From: | Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 27, 2001, 11:11 |
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>From: Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
>Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 07:34:49 +0100
>
>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).
In English it's _Lunatic Lovers of Language_. I looked through a copy in
the J. Erik Johnson Dallas Public Library (the main one, downtown). It was
one of those book they let you look at but don't let you check out IIRC. I
wasn't impressed and remember very little about it except that it seemed to
talk alot about Borges, again IIRC.
Adam
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.
>
>
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
>
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