Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?

I strongly suspect some of the characters in my novels - both written and
unwritten - are intent on making their own conlangs.  At one point I was
going to have an Interstellar Auxiliary Language (Intersidereal) for the
autonomous interstellar navy (FTL) that kept the peace between the worlds.

In this, I think Tolkien was right in assigning (in the Peoples of
Middle-Earth papers) the (dis)credit for some of the Middle-Eart conlangs to
the Middle Earth characters.  Languages like The Black Speech, conlang of
Sauron, and some of the innovations of Ngoldor Quenya were directly ascribed
to Feanaro, the son of Finwe.  (Orkish linguistic innovations were ascribed
to their inability to get along ...)

Wesley Parish

On Tuesday 22 April 2003 02:13 pm, you wrote:
> From: "Danny Wier" <dawier@...>
> Subject: Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?
>
> > >Has  anyone in this mailing list made a real conlang?
> >
> > What I'd like to know -- has anyone on this list made a fraudulent
>
> conlang?
>
> > ;-)
>
> By Andrew's definition, I certainly have.  I have some conlangs that
> couldn't be used for everyday communication, some merely by virtue of the
> fact that they aren't developed enough, but others because they are
> intended to be non-human, and therefore lack many words that humans would
> want.
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