Re: Desiring good English to Greek / Greek to English and English to Latin / Latin to English books

ROGER MILLS wrote:
> Nomad wrote:
>>
>> Oh yeah, and what's the best beginners book on learning the art of
>> conlanging?  :-D
>
> Just today there was a post on Conculture about this (the Holly Lisle
> Create Clinic series): <quote> These books are not available on Amazon,
> Powells, nor any other used
> book store.
> They are only available through Lulu.
> These books are Holly Lisle's Create a Plot Clinic; Holly Lisle's
> Create a Character Clinic; Holly Lisle's Create a Culture Clinic; and
> Holly Lisle's Create a Language Clinic.</quote>
>
> One comment about the last was that it might just be about creating bits
> and pieces that would "look" like a language, but wouldn't be complete.
> The problem, apparently, with Lulu is that you can't see any samples of
> the books, just have to send in your money and hope. That could be
> disappointing.........
>
> Isn't there something on Zompist, How to Create a Language sort of
> thing?? Ah yes: http://zompist.com/kit.html   I also remember Pablo
> Flores' similar and very good pages on the same subject, but I'm not
> sure they're still available.
Actually, what I meant was... is there a layman's book about the
mechanics of languages?  Understanding the terminology, understanding
the pronunciation-codes, and stuff... from the perspective of someone
wanting to get a basic grasp of linguistics and of comparing different
langauges...

I /thought/ I remembered someone saying "This is a good book to get for
beginners" over on the freenode.net #conlang channel, and I bookmarked
some books based on recommendations and stuff, but now I can't remember
which one of those it was, or if it WAS one of those...  :-|

>
> As to Greek and Latin dictionaries, I can't help. Liddell and Scott IIRC
> is standard for one of them; have you tried googling? _Perseus_  rings a
> bell............


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