Re: CHAT: September 17th

Stone Gordonssen wrote:
>
>>Well, today is September 17th, and the feast of (St.) Hildegard of
>>Bingen - the conlangers' patron saint, probably.
>
> I actually read something about Catholic Saints while doing some rsarch
> on Vodou. Heldegard is not the patron saint of linguists/linguopiles,
> but I can't remember who was other than he was rather obscure (shown
> often as an old man bent over a desk writing). Drat.
The patron saint of _conlangers_, not the patron saint of
linguists. Hildegard is the (unofficial) patron saint of
conlangers, for having invented a conlang several centuries
ago (called Lingua Ignota, IIRC?)

--Ph. D.