Re: Chelume - My Conlang website up.

On Thursday, January 8, 2004, at 09:04  AM, Gary Shannon wrote:

> --- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
> wrote:
>>  --- Caleb Hines skrzypszy:
>>
>>> www.umsl.edu/~cph9fa/chelume
>>>
>>> Reviews, Questions, Comments, Criticisms, etc are
>> welcome!
>>
>> I like both the look and the contents. I certainly
>> hope to see more of it in
>> the future.
>>
>> One thing: why would you give away at the end of the
>> page that it is a work of
>> fiction? Wouldn't it be much more fun to make people
>> actually believe that it
>> is all true?
>
> Intersting thought.  Has anyone ever tried to pass off
> a conlang as "the real and true language of ancient
> Atlantis?"  That would be an intersting on to foist
> off on the tinfoil hat fraternity.
I haven't *tried* to fool people with Tepa/Miapimoquitch (you got it
right, Jan!), but I've inadvertently snared a couple. I think it had
more to do with the fictional "discovery narrative" than with the
language itself.

Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga
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If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so
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