Re: [FWD: Artificial Descendants of Latin (New Book)]

--- Roger Mills skrzypszy:

>> Title: Artificial Descendants of Latin
>> Series Title: Languages of the World 31
>> Publication Year: 2003
>> Publisher: Lincom GmbH www.lincom-europa.com,
>> Author: Alan Libert,University of Newcastle
>> Paperback: ISBN: 3895868183, Pages: 140, Price: EUR 44
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>Expensivo!! Certainly an interesting topic per se, but the author obviously
>has never heard of romconlang at yahoogroups :-))) Wenedyk, Jovian(?) and
>Carrajena et al. would certainly give him food for thought............
Oh well, Wenedyk, Jovian and Carrajena were all started less than two years
ago, IIRC. Work in progress, you know. Whatever bits of Wenedyk he could
have retrieved from the Internet one year ago would definitely be wrong
now.

But it is a pity that he even neglects Brithenig and Kerno, or any artlangs
for that matter. Well, it might have escaped his attention that some
constructed languages have been designed for artistic reasons only; the
list of languages discussed is certainly impressive and interesting, but
without exception all languages that appear in the book are auxlangs. A
missed chance. But although from this point of view the title is a bit
misleading, I would absolutely be interested in owning the book.

Jan