From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>
> 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!
One of my teachers was reading something I'd written down, and as she got to
a part that had been written in a conscript of mine, she kind of blanked out
a moment... she said it was "like when you get a virus on the computer, and
it garbles all the text" or somewhat. It was a really weird reaction.
*Muke!