Re: CHAT: Umberto Eco and Esperanto

Vorlin is something that Rick Harrison, one of the ancient Conlangers
of eld (how's that for pleonasm?), created, after he repented of the
sin of IALing.  It (http://www.rick.harrison.net/vornet/vorlin.html)
is available at his Invisible Lighthouse page
(http://www.rick.harrison.net/) along with an interesting article
called "A farewell to auxiliary languages."
(http://www.rick.harrison.net/langlab/farewell.html)...

Which is not really as entertaining as our dear Mathias's "day in the
life of a conlanger":

http://members.aol.com/manishtusu/conlangday.html

(Mathias, the link to this on your site is broken and I had to go
digging!  the .html on the end is missing.)

Ed Heil ------ edheil@postmark.net
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Sally Caves wrote:

> Tom Wier wrote:
> >
> > Jim Henry wrote:
>
> > > Another point I meant to make (but perhaps didn't) was that life is
> > > short, and any language I put significant effort into becoming fluent
> > > in will have to have attractions other than the purely linguistic.
> > > With French and Classical Greek it's primarily books, with
> > > Esperanto it's mainly people, but other nifty languages like Vorlin,
> > > Lojban, and Teonaht, with all due respect to Rick Harrison, lojbab
> > > et alia, and Sally Caves, don't have those attractions.
>
> I missed this the first time 'round.  This is so weird to hear this!
> Teonaht has a rich context for me, of course, which is so impossible
> to convey to another person.  Of course I haven't made the grand
> literature available yet, <G>  the peculiar histories, the operas,
> the books of wisdom, and the medical and magical sagas... not to mention
> the world of the gods and cats... but there it is.  As you say,
> "life is short!"
>
> I don't know Vorlin.  Does Eco mention it?
> Sally
>