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Re: CHAT: facing your own mortality (as a conlanger)

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Friday, June 27, 2008, 17:08
Hi!

Rick Harrison writes:
>... > If you have a personal language that you've never revealed to > anyone else, for example: would you want to write a description of > the language ahead of time, and make arrangements to have it > published after passing away? How would you make such arrangements? >...
One of my ideas always was to produce something very, very durable and hide it somewhere (so no idiot will destroy it too soon), in the hope that future archologists will find it. :-) It is not easy to store petabytes on durable rock so that each bit is large enought to withstand a million years of sun, rain, wind. **Henrik