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| An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented (2012) (newyorker.com) | ||
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| teh_klev Jul 22, 2019 | on: The Best Magazine Articles Ever (2012) | context |
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andolanra Jul 30, 2019 | on: Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language | context
A friend of mine one jokingly but reasonably accurately described Ithkuil as, "Build a language with as much derivational morphology as humanly possible, then add some more, and you've got Ithkuil." It's a fascinating experiment and a lot of fun to read about. As a fascinating side-note: the language was also at one point adopted by some kind of fringe pseudo-religious movement called "Psychonetics" as a "…technology of human consciousness." There's a fascinating article about Ithkuil, its creator, and its adoption by that movement here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-be... (and the previous HN discussion of it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8180493 ) |
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That's a great article. Was also discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8180493