> 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
>
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