Re: Language of ERB's Barsoom

Fredrik Ekman <ekman@...> comunu:

> I am currently writing an article on the subject of the language of Edgar
> Rice Burroughs' fictional Barsoom (Mars), as seen in his John Carter
> novels.
Writing an article for a magazine, web page, ...?


> Does anyone know about any previous efforts to describe this
> language? I already know about the article by Jeffrey Hennings
> (http://www.langmaker.com/barsoom.html) and John Flint Roy's Guide to
> Barsoom.
While there are many Jeffrey Hennings (one runs a golf store, another is a
star athlete at his college), we are each Jeffrey Henning.  (I am the only
Jeffrey *Alan* Henning that I know of, but there may be others. With so many
humans alive today, its time to start giving children two middle names,
methinks, to reduce the odds of the exact same name. So if you have a
conlang in the future, give your characters 4- or 5- part names!)

The link is actually:

http://www.langmaker.com/barsoom.htm

All pages on my site use *.htm, since I prefer TLEs.

There may be fanzines with more information on the language.  You might want
to try one of the ERB mailing lists, accessible from the ERB web ring at the
bottom of my page.

Best regards,

Jeffrey Henning
http://www.LangMaker.com/ - Invent Your Own Language
http://www.Jeffrey.Henning.com/
"If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed....  Oh, wait, he
does!"