Re: Sauron's conlang (was: Intergermansk - Three Rings)

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 07:35:14PM -0500, Pascal A. Kramm wrote:
> Well, your response to my suggestion (that he did base his conlang on
> pre-existing langs) seemed indeed to suggest that yyou meant he did create a
> 'a priori' lang:
>   "It could have been a completely normal and natural
>   lang before Sauron came and changed Mordor into the Land of Shadows..."
> So if he did *not* create an 'a priori' lang, this is exactly what happened,
> he used already spoken lang(s) (most probably the previous lang of Mordor)
> to create his conlang.
>
It seems that one of us misunderstands the terms "a priori" and "a posteriori".
And I don't know which one of us Ray agrees with.  But I would say that
Esperanto is an a posteriori lang, not an a priori one - it's vocabulary
was not made up out of thin air, but based on various existing languages.
Even so, there exists no language that you can point to and say "that's
what Esperanto used to be before it was Esperanto."

-Marcos

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> Pascal A. Kramm, author of:
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