Re: history of conlanging

On Sun, 21 Nov 1999 00:09:36 -0500, Jeffrey Henning <Jeffrey@...>
wrote:

>I was probably 11 or 12 and read in _Dragon Magazine_ (a magazine =
published
>by TSR, makers of Dungeons & Dragons) two articles on inventing your own
>language.  Having loved the runes in _The Hobbit_, having loved ERB's
>Barsoomian language (http://www.langmaker.com/barsoom.htm), having loved=
 the
>Elvish glossary in the Silmarillion, having loved reading dictionaries
>(English and foreign languages), having loved BASIC and FORTRAN IV and =
PILOT
>and LISP, having loved overused parallelism, once I saw two authors =
write
>about how to invent your own language, I just had to do it myself.
I developed my Dwarvish and Kobold languages based on some of the ideas =
in
those articles. Well, there aren't any Dwarves in the Kolagian universe, =
so
I guess I'll have to have someone else adopt Zarkhand, but I mainly used =
it
for place-names in my old AD&D campaign.

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languages of Kolagia---> =
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      Thryomanes        /"If all Printers were determin'd not to print =
any
   (Herman Miller)     / thing till they were sure it would offend no =
body,
   moc.oi @ rellimh <-/  there would be very little printed." -Ben =
Franklin