Re: "Coming out" about conlanging to people
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 23, 2001, 2:51 |
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D Tse scripsit:
> I responded that it was in a constructed language, and more questions came
> up. "Translate it for me." "This first character, what is it?" "What does
> it have to do with birds?"
Here's a hypothesis: When a Chinese person sees something written in a
conscript, they are going to assume it is hanzi they don't happen to
know, written in some ultra-obscure calligraphic style!
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
--Douglas Hofstadter
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