Re: Spocanian, a Dutch conlang

> Is anyone on the list familiar with a conlang called Spocanian?
>=20
> Today while cleaning out a desk drawer, I came across an email from
> the Linguist listserv (dated June 21, 1994!)  The author had
> posted a set of sentences in a mystery lg and had asked for opinions
> and analysis.  After a few weeks, he published a very long message
> detailing the lg and its background.
> He seemed not too familiar with the world of conlanging or even
> very much aware that others did this, he was somewhat shocked he
> was still doing it at the age of 45!
> I will quote a very small bit of his message:
>         "Spocanian is the result of almost 35 years of playing around
> with grammar...and is not intended as a follow-up of a language like
> Esperanto. [I]ts grammar consists of approximately 1500 pages and
> its dictionary consists of over 25,000 entries..."

I don't know of any other material on the Net other that 'very long message=
',
but for anyone interested there's a copy of it on Rick Harrison's page at:
   http://www.rick.harrison.net/langlab/spocanian.txt
  =20
(...well, having lived in Spokane I felt I had to reply to this one, too :)


Josh

        _/_/      _/_/  _/_/_/_/   Joshua Shinavier            =20
         _/        _/  _/         Loorenstrasse 74, Zimmer B321=20
        _/        _/  _/_/_/_/   CH-8053 Z=FCrich              =20
 _/    _/  _/    _/        _/   Switzerland                 =20
_/_/_/_/  _/_/_/_/  _/_/_/_/   http://www.delphi.com/aring

Danov=EBn pages: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/5555/ven.htm