Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

On Sunday, April 27, 2003, at 02:24  PM, Jeffrey Henning wrote:

> Dirk Elzinga comunu:
>
>> the vocabulary of Miapimoquitch is meant to deal with the world
>> of a preliterate, puebloan culture.
>
> I was on vacation in central and northern Arizona last week, and went
> again to Montezuma's Castle and the different Wupatki ruins.  And I
> thought to myself, "I really wish Dirk would publish a description of
> Miapimoquitch."  OK, I actually thought "Mia-... mia-... neo-Tepa", not
> being able to remember the name.  I did remember it was actually set in
> southern Utah, but felt I was close enough in spirit.
I think it is. Not being an anthropologist, much less an archeologist,
I'm not sure what exactly the differences are between the two and what
that might mean for Miapimoquitch.

> So if enough of us tell you plaintively that our conlanging lives will
> not be complete until we see a full description of Miapimoquitch, will
> that be encouragement for you to continue documenting it?
This is incredibly flattering. Thanks, Jeffrey! I'm counting on some
down time during my summer fieldwork trip, during which I want to get a
lot of the documentation work done for Miapimoquitch -- including
transcriptions from the original journals in the Deseret Alphabet. And
since the DA has a Unicode block (U+10400-U+1044F), I can even put them
on the web in their original form! Well, a typescript anyway.

And I now have a real ISP and access to server space for web pages.

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga
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