Re: CHAT: BOOK/CHAT: FW: Lunatic Lovers of Language

At 10:05 -0400 on 23.9.1998, Baba wrote:

>
> --- On Mon, 21 Sep 1998  wrote:
> Marina Yaguello, *Lunatic Lovers of Language. Imaginary Languages and
> Their Inventors*, Catherine Slater, tr. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson
> University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-485-11303-1 (hc)
>
> Short book (223 pages), steep price ($40). I recommend it to anyone with
> an interest in the wild side of linguistics. Excerpts follow.
>
> Curiously,
> Brian Chapman
> ------------------------
That book is mostly a viscious slander of the idea of IALs, based in a kind
of natlang-mysticism that isn't a bit better than the worst excesses in the
IAL field (which undeniably exist, alas.)  As for artlanging: if it is
lunacy, then it is lunacy to paint houses on canvas, as compared to just
painting houses.

/BP


B.Philip. Jonsson <bpj@...>

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