Contributors wanted for book on "Invented Languages"
Chris F Waigl
cwaigl at FREE.FR
Thu Jul 21 18:54:13 UTC 2005
Michael Adams wrote:
>I am currently editing an book on "Invented Languages" for the Oxford
>University Press. that will include chapters on international
>languages like Volapuk and Esperanto; the many languages of Tolkien's
>Middle-Earth; reconstructed/renewed languages from Mongolian to Welsh;
>etc. According to the proposal, it will also include chapters on
>Klingon, conlangs generally, and invented vocabularies like Nadsat and
>Newspeak, but I am having trouble locating authors for these three
>chapters.
There is at least one blog in Klingon, and it has been up for a year and a half.
<http://bologh.blogspot.com/>. Maybe someone who reads Klingon can figure out
who the author is (email: <Qov at kli.org>). I presume they communicate in English
on occasion.
The blog does at least touch on language matters -- Jean Véronis, the author of
a French linguistics blog (<http://aixtal.blogspot.com/>) found himself quoted
there.
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Chris Waigl
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