Conlang Persecution

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> Ed Heil wrote:
> >
> > Fascinating tidbit from the article on Nu Shu:
> >
> > "The penalty for creating new languages was death for the
> > transgressor, their family and nine related families. "
>
> Wow!  I guess we can all be glad that isn't true today, eh?  :-)
I was about to say "Wow!" too.  Conlang Persecution!  Worse than
calling us lunatics.  Speaking of which, who has read Paul Auster's
_The New York Trilogy_?  I heard/read somewhere that one of its
three novellas is about a man who goes crazy inventing a language.
Am I getting this mixed up with something else?  It seems Auster-ish
to do this... after all, in _The Music of Chance_ he has an immense
miniature town, built by lunatics.  I've got the book, I guess I
could crack it.  But if I don't find it, I will wonder where I heard
this.

Sally

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