Re: Natlangs in Fantasy Worlds
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 10, 2007, 23:17 |
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On 11/10/07, Alex Bicksler <burtonlang@...> wrote:
> Okay, I didn't mean for this to be about Middle Earth--I'm not
> exactly an expert on that, so that was meant to be an example, though
> apparently it wasn't a very good one.
>
> This was more of a question of how one would go about making "Englsh"
> a language in a conworld, so that it would have a history (different
> from OTL history) with the languages of the world.
It has long been a minor annoyance to me that Lucy et al. can
readily understand the talking animals of Narnia when they arrive,
seeing as how the English of Narnia ought to have diverged greatly from
the late 19th century English spoken there at the time of its creation
during the thousands of years that passed between the time
of King Frank and Queen Helen, and the time of the White Witch.
--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry
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