The book does spend more chapters on auxiliary languages and the various "philosophical" langauges, but she ends with artlangs, via Tolkien through Klingon. She takes mostly a chronological approach, and her point of view is that the activity of inventing languages has mostly shifted in purpose: that hardly anyone is trying to improve the flaws of natural language anymore and that creating them for artistic purposes is where the action is now.
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Date: 2009-10-26 05:36 pm (UTC)