Found this-
"For a few months we mouthed O fat obas to one another at parties, expressing-and, no doubt, confirming-our distance from everyone else. In secret, of course, we wanted to be understood. One night I told Herb, 'If I met a woman who knew Volapük, I'd marry her on the spot.'

"A dark-haired woman turned around. 'Oh my god,' she said. 'You ( Read more... )

Bucklands Crossing may be cancelled because of rain and absentees.

Blogging is starting to feel like a solitary vice. (Like conlanging.)

AutoCorrect on Microsoft word is a great facility, especially if you stop treating it as something to fix mistakes and treat it as something to save work. Here's a list of some of my current abbreviations and their long versions. The [ ] indicates leading or following spaces which need to be printed into the AutoCorrect grid, and which will print ( Read more... )

Browsing around Wikipedia articles on Tolkien's Middle Earth, I wandered into an article on Sindarin, where I found the following:
It was derived from an earlier language called Common Telerin. Although the Telerin spoken in Aman remained relatively close to Quenya, Sindarin diverged significantly, so that it was now about as far from Quenya as ( Read more... )