Contributors wanted f or book on "Invented Languages"

[Dave Wilton]

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> Subject: Re: Contributors wanted f or book on "Invented Languages"
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> Suzette Haden Elgin constructed a language called Laaden for some of
> her novels that improved on natural language because it wasn't oriented
> towards the masculine -- it would be among the book's subject
> languages, part of my introductory chapter as well as the chapter that
> surveys conlangs.

Poul Anderson wrote a short story (really a chapter from a basic chemistry
text) called "Uncleftish Beholding" in a dialect of modern English that did
not have the Norman Conquest in its history. A sample:

"The next greatest firststuff is sunstuff, which has two firstbits and two
bernstonebits. The everyday sort also has two neitherbits in the kernel. If
there are more or less, the uncleft will soon break asunder."


--Dave Wilton
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