Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gitpyr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!gitpyr!dts From: dts@gitpyr.UUCP (Danny Sharpe) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Invented languages Message-ID: <468@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 13:19:59 EST Article-I.D.: gitpyr.468 Posted: Thu Jan 10 13:19:59 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 06:35:29 EST Distribution: net Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Lines: 24 ... 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 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!dts