Re: Distaste and hostility was Re: a 12th century conlang

dunn patrick w wrote:

> It would be interesting to read a psychological study of why people have
> such an overtly hostile reaction to the idea of conlanging.
>
> --Patrick
Hear hear, Patrick.  And I'm in the process of writing it.  It seems to be
something that mostly ladeda academics engage in; I mean, there are
many many studies of Tolkien's languages in less prestigious journals
than _Exemplaria_.  It's the damned theorists of language or of literary
criticism that you've got to watch out for.  Neither Schnapp nor Yaguello
can bring themselves to mention Quenya or Klingon... and yet they seem
so content to apply these absolutes to their observations:  ALWAYS
a bricolage; ALWAYS infantile, ALWAYS amateur.   I wish all of you
could have come to my talk.  I played some Olaetyan soundbytes, Herman.

It's as if...well... serious attention paid to linguistic treatment of Tolkien is

for those "other" "lesser" critics.  The Trekkers and Tolkienites.  We
language theorists are going to talk about Helene Smith, and how her
Martian language is representative of what all those goofy conlangers
are doing.   Phroka!


Sally
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/pronouns.html