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Re: The League of Lost Languages (was Re: Fakelangs)

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 29, 2004, 8:43
Frank George Valoczy wrote:

> Jumping in here late...what is (briefly) a Lost Language/Fakelang?
A conlang that is presented as a real natlang. The description does not acknowledge its fictionality, contains citations of (nonexistent) scholarly works, and could lead a naive reader to believe that the language is (or was) spoken by a real population.