Conlangs and Catholicism (was: Stats, before that: The profile of a conlanger)

Don wrote:

>I'm Catholic (not confirmed, though I consider it occasionally); I still
>go to mass sometimes, often when I'm home with my parents.  Apropos this
>list, it really gives me some strong ideas of the importance of ritual
>in any culture, not to mention the likely character of such ritual, and
>the associated back-story.  Whatever else they may have done right or
>wrong, the RCC *has* managed to have two millennia of ritualistic
>tradition to develop, and that's just a gold mine of ideas for any
>constructed culture. :)
Not to mention Volap=FCk, the granddaddy of them all (IAL's), was invente=
d by=20
a priest, and Tolkien was a Catholic as well.  And you've heard of St.=20
Hindegard's Lingua Ignota...

Danny

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