Re: Betreft: Re: "Conlanging" in Greek (Re: "conlanger" en Franais?)

On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Rob Nierse wrote:

> >>> Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> 04/25 9:43  >>>
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Daniel A. Wier wrote:
>
> > Hey, I heard a Greek term for "invention of languages", and part of it
> > involved the word _glossa_.  Oh for the life of me, why can't I remember it?
> > I want to say it's _glossagenesis_ or something like that...
> >
> > Danny
>
> Glossopoesia?
>
> --->
> I thought it was glossolalia
>
> Rob
> <---
Glossolalia is speaking in tongues -- a religious (usually) phenomonon in
which a person begins to babble nonsense syllables in a state of light
self hypnosis.

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