While it is sad that so many languages are dying out, and indeed more people should be studying them, I don't agree that languages like Elvish or Klingon are necessarily a distraction. In my own case, Tolkien's languages were the inspiration that drove me to learn more about language and grammar than I ever did in school, and in a roundabout way, led me to study ON now.

Dan

Mark Hall wrote:

On 9/19/2003, "Erich Rickheit KSC" <rickheit-ync@...> wrote:

  

Kevin McKechnie wrote:
    

I did not know you could even learn Elvish!!! Good luck mate,
sounds interesting.
      

Best source for learning Tolkien's languages:
 http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/
    

The sad part I find to all these folks rushing out and trying to
learn/create
Elvish and Klingon and whatever else is, that there are lots of perfectly
good languages that are dead, dying and going into oblivion for a variety
of
reasons.  And even from an academic viewpoint, so of these languages,
particularly the Native american ones only have a handful of schoalrs
working on them/preserving them.  Sigh.. :(

Best, MEH

Mark Hall


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