Re: Fictional auxlangs as artlangs (was Re: Poll)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 8:31 |
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 19:01, deinx nxtxr <deinx.nxtxr@...> wrote:
>> [snip]
>> >> Even Sindarin or Quenya could be
>> >> expanded to serve as an auxlang if UN so wished it (now there's
> an
>> >> interesting alternative history ;)
>> >
>> > I have seen such proposals at least for Quenya.
>>
>> That doesn't surprise me one bit.
>
> Me neither given that Klingon has been brought up too. The only
> problem with these are they are artistic creations so not really
> designed to be easy to learn and use.
Heh. Wasn't Klingon even specifically designed to be "unnatural" from
the point of view of "common" Earth languages? (For example, in having
odd gaps in its phoneme grid, and an unusual word order; possibly
other things, too.)
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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