Jeffrey's Langmaker book
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 3:33 pm
I'm like the worst publicist ever... but anyway, Jeffrey Henning's book, Langmaker: Celebrating Conlangs, is out, for both print and Kindle. See here, if you dare, for the story of why the Kindle version was annoyingly late.
Also see the first link for what's in the book. Oh OK, I better at least summarize: it's all Jeffrey's general essays on conlanging (back when he called them "model languages"), his reviews of various good (Tolkien) and worse (Barsoomian) professional conlangs, and a good selection of his own conlangs.
Plus, for historical interest and to give the flavor of the Langmaker site, a version of the "Conlangs at a Glance" section with about 1100 entries. I worked on this quite a bit to give more information, though far too much has fallen to linkrot, and many people didn't give very much information. You might be there!
(I'm not going to say it's a passion of mine, but I do think conlanging has a history, and it's good to have a permanent record of it. Some histories of auxlangs include long lists of old projects, but of course these are out of date. The only other readily accessible list I'm aware of is the one in Arika Okrent's book, which is pretty terrible (it just has language name, creator's name and not even the full name, date).
Also see the first link for what's in the book. Oh OK, I better at least summarize: it's all Jeffrey's general essays on conlanging (back when he called them "model languages"), his reviews of various good (Tolkien) and worse (Barsoomian) professional conlangs, and a good selection of his own conlangs.
Plus, for historical interest and to give the flavor of the Langmaker site, a version of the "Conlangs at a Glance" section with about 1100 entries. I worked on this quite a bit to give more information, though far too much has fallen to linkrot, and many people didn't give very much information. You might be there!
(I'm not going to say it's a passion of mine, but I do think conlanging has a history, and it's good to have a permanent record of it. Some histories of auxlangs include long lists of old projects, but of course these are out of date. The only other readily accessible list I'm aware of is the one in Arika Okrent's book, which is pretty terrible (it just has language name, creator's name and not even the full name, date).