Monday, December 14, 2009

constructivism

Does anyone else think it's silly/cute that articles about Esperanto stress that it's a constructed/fake/artificial language?

or that there's people dedicated to celebrating the construction (as opposed to evolution, duh) of languages?

or that those people (called conlagists--CONstructed LAnGuage IST {get it?!? it's like they follow some grammatical rules, but not other ones})have their own flag with a tower of babel on it?

or that according to these people there is a distinction between just ordinary constructed languages and languages constructed for artistic purposes (called glossopoeia, thanks JRR Tolkein!!)

Brought to you by google's celebrating LL Zamenhof, and wikipedia--of course.

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