Re: CHAT: Umberto Eco and Esperanto

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> 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)
He started it as an IAL proposal in 1991, IIRC, and continues working on it as an
artlang/loglang after he gave up on his dreams of world domination. :) I'm
cc'ing him on this, so he can correct me if I'm misremembering or misreading
him.

> 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":
Not as entertaining, but at least as thought-provoking.

> 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
<snip>
> > Sally
After the histories, operas, books of wisdom etc. are available, & "Teach Yourself
Teonaht is complete, I'll have to reconsider, of course. :)


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