Re: LUNATIC again

John Fisher wrote:

> A "relex" is what people on this list usually call what lojbab has been
> referring to as a "code", namely a creation in which the words, or maybe
> the morphemes, of a source language (usually the creator's own) are
> given a new sound representation, without the structure of the language
> being changed in any other important way.
[example snipped]

The term "code" is also that used by JRRT in "A Secret Vice"
to describe Animalic and Nevbosh.

BTW, in rereading this essay to find the reference, I stumbled
across a most interesting sentence which I had never noticed
before, in the seventh paragraph (p. 200 of the Houghton Mifflin
hardback):

        Few philologists [i.e. linguists] even are devoid
        of the making instinct --- but they often know
        but one thing well; they must build with the
        bricks they have.

This seems to mean that many linguists would be language
constructors if they could!  What do you all make of this?

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)