Re: tolkien?

In a message dated 2003:12:11 04:32:16 AM:

>> i was wondering who many of you were in spired by tolkien? thats why
>i
>> started all this in the first place. and if you werent inspired by
>> tolkien who or what made you start?
    Science-fiction and Postmodern/HyperModern poetry (as well
as *EEK!* AuxLangs).

    I found depictions of futuristic language - i.e. "StreetSpeak"
in the sci-fi movie _Blade Runner_ & the _Star Trek_ series, etc. -
sorely lacking in linguistic _veritas_. And it was not much better in
written works either.
    Reading Walter Meyer's _Aliens and Linguists:
Language Study and Science Fiction_ - esp'ly the section on the
future of English - is practically a handbook on how to create plausible
linguistic creations.

    In recent years, I have found some interesting poetry that has more
sci-fi and
linguistic components than most sci-fi.

    Most recently, Christophe G. turned me onto the linguistic mangling in
Japanese anime and manga.

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Hanuman "Stitch" Zhang, ManglaLanger (mangle + manga + lang)
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     Language[s] change[s]: vowels shift, phonologies crash-&-burn, grammars
leak, morpho-syntactics implode, lexico-semantics mutate, lexicons explode,
orthographies reform, typographies blip-&-beep, slang flashes, stylistics
warp... linguistic (R)evolutions mark each-&-every quantum leap...

"Some Languages Are Crushed to Powder but Rise Again as New Ones" -
title of a chapter on pidgins and creoles, John McWhorter,
_The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language_

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