Re: Crest of Stars conlang?

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> En réponse à Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>:
>
> > A fansite that talks somewhat about this is at:
> > http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Shrine/4777/Seikai/seikai.html
> >
> I've taken a look at it, and it seems very interesting. Not only the conlang
> seems quite well created, but also the conculture and the "con-science" (Hey, I
> think I've coined an interesting new word :))) ). I would like to see the anime
> and to read the book...
Me too--the 1st 4 episodes are out on DVD (English/Japanese, no clue
about French, hélas).  I was hooked after the 1st episode, and looked it
up on the web because the opening sequence has what's apparently some
sort of conversation-overlay to a battle, but damned if I could even
*guess* what the language was.  Between the friend sitting in front of me
(who does choir, so recognizes the sounds of various tongues) and me, we
could've done tentative identifications of Romance, German, Korean,
Japanese, maybe-Chinese, Thai, Russian, Polish, etc.  And we just
couldn't place the darn thing.  So imagine my delight to learn that it
really was a conlang, and not some *really* obscure language...!

YHL