http://www.metafilter.com/tags/xenolinguistics Posts tagged with 'xenolinguistics' at MetaFilter. Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:29:41 -0800 Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:29:41 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/40223/whod%2Dbother%2Dnaming%2Dsomething%2Das%2Dshortlived%2Das%2Da%2Dcat <a href="http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/lingo.html">Xenolinguistics primer.</a> The study of extraterrestrial languages is rather impractical in this day and age, but potentially useful in the future. That didn't stop Bowling Green State University from offering a <a href="http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/xenolinguistics/">course</a> in it. The course website has many interesting links to sites discussing such invented tongues as <a href="http://langmaker.com/ilish.htm">ilish</a>, <a href="http://www.langmaker.com/fith.htm">fith</a>, <a href="http://langmaker.com/outpost/ro.htm">ro</a> and <a href="http://www.zompist.com/kebreni.htm">kebreni</a>. [Note: Some of the links on the course website are broken] tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.40223 Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:29:41 -0800 alienlanguages conlang JustinBRye linguistics theoreticallinguistics xenolinguistics Kattullus