Re: LeGuin (was: a 12th century conlang)
| From: | JOEL MATTHEW PEARSON <mpearson@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 25, 1999, 3:06 |
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On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, John Cowan wrote:
> > I already described my encounter with novelist Brenda Clough
> > who expressed a similar distaste for this kind of passion.
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> I don't think there's a shred of evidence that UKL disdains the
> conlang passion, and some evidence that she actually possesses it.
Agreed. In her introduction to the Kesh lexicon (one of the many
appendicies in the novel "Always Coming Home"), she suggests that
the details of Kesh vocabulary might be interesting to "fellow
practitioners of what an illustrious predecessor called the Secret
Vice". This implies that she considers herself a practitioner of
the Secret Vice - hence a conlanger. Her conlanging efforts may
not be as thorough or 'deep' as those of others, but she's definitely
more linguistically inclined than your average science fiction writer.
Matt.