Re: Good reads for the novice conlanger?
| From: | bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 6, 2002, 12:43 |
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--- J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> wrote:
> - _The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language_ 2nd
> edition, by David Crystal
i agree. also worthwhile is _concise compendium of the
world's lagnagues_ by campbell ( it's gets really bad
reviews on amazon, and is rather inaccurate, but makes
a good gazetteer (sp?) )
my other suggestion is just borrowing self-teaching
books on various natlangs ( or reading them in
bookshops ) as a good way of finding out
possibilities. that was ( and still is to some extent
) my method anyway ). it's worth going for obscure
from time to time tho !
bn
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