Re: history of conlanging

Jeffrey Henning wrote, in reply to me:

>> Later, when I was about 11, a friend and I collaborated on
>> an English relex which we called "Jibberish".
>
>ROTFL.  I too designed a language like this!  I called it Jibburish (!!!),
>and it was spoken in the imaginary land of Jibbur (just past the Outlands,
>where -- of course -- they spoke Outlandish).
Our Jibberish language was spoken in the tiny country of Jibberia,
which for some unknown reason we located on the Straits of
Bosporus in western Turkey.  The conculture was never developed
beyond naming and locating the country, however.

Matt.