Re: Fiction with connatlangs vs conconlangs

In a message dated 2/18/2008 10:38:52 AM Central Standard Time, 
jimhenry1973@GMAIL.COM writes:


> Besides those in which conlanging is a major part of the
> story, several others come to mind in which there are throwaway
> references to constructed languages devised for particular
> purposes -- usually superhumans or posthumans devising
> something to suit their modes of thought better than natural
> human languages. 


Heinlein's "Gulf" (Speedtalk?) (à la Ithkuil) and "The moon is a harsh 
mistress" (Loglan) come to mind, but one of my favorites is Singlespeech (and 
?Multispeech) in M. A. Foster's "The warriors of Dawn" and "Transformers".  I read 
"The languages of Pao" by Jack Vance over 23 years ago (it's not in my reading 
log, which I started in 1985).  "Babel-17" by Samuel Delany.  "Native Tongue" 
by Suzette Haden Elgin (Láadan).  "The Troika incident" by James Cooke Brown 
(Loglan).  
Several languages, one a descendant of Mayan, figure in Catherine Asaro's 
Skolian Empire series.
Those're about all I can think of right now.

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