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From: dts@gitpyr.UUCP (Danny Sharpe)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Invented languages
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Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 13:19:59 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 10 13:19:59 1985
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I recently read a lecture by JRR Tolkien entitled "A Secret Vice"
in a book whose title is, I think, "The Monsters and the Critics".
He talks about making up your own language, and how many people who
indulge in this passtime tend to stay in the closet and not share
their ideas with each other. Perhaps this is because of fear of
ridicule, or perhaps it's because making up your own language is
such a personal thing.

Anyway, I'm curious. A friend and I started making up a language
about ten years ago and I'd like to know how many other people
do things like this, too.

How many shy persons out there in netland have invented, or at least
worked on, their own languages?


-- Either Argle-Bargle IV or someone else. --

Danny Sharpe
School of ICS
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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