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Conlanging today: an infantile disorder?
I am being uncustomarily diplomatic here.  Somewhere I wrote what is wrong with the Esperanto documentary. I think Sam compounded Okrent's misrepresentation of the era that produced Esperanto. As for the Four Utopias and Sam's documentary approach, Stephen Squibb nailed what is wrong with it.
I get constant updates in my Facebook newsfeed from conlangers, and while I find the resources available in this area far more sophisticated than what I recall being available in the era of marginal print culture when I was a teenager, something has declined in one area as sophistication has grown in another. In the old days, most of the conlangers (when the term did not exist) at least pretended to be interested in an international auxiliary language, with an admixture of eccentrics and outright cranks making big claims, especially those inventing a priori languages. (I am so glad I was finally able to acquire my own copy of Fuishiki Okamoto's 1962 book on BABM at the 2010 Esperanto USA congress, which I recall from my nerd salad days haunting the Buffalo main library.) In those days the figure most known for inventing languages for the hell of it was J.R.R. Tolkien (whose medieval nostalgia I soon learned to disdain), which he referred to as a guilty pleasure. It was something for male nerds just past puberty to do in those days, in a far more innocent but hardly idyllic time.
Now artificial languages are commissioned ad hoc for superficially sophisticated sci fi and fantasy films and TV shows. But Dothraki could not get me to endure Game of Thrones.  And my opinion of Avatar was none too favorable either. I have already expressed my "esteem" for Klingon (see the post reproduced below).
All of this reminds me of a visit to Buffalo in the past year, in which I was taken to a congregation of a sci fi film club, coincidentally located a block from where I grew up. I had to endure episode 6 of Star Wars all over again, a scenario so preposterous even the person who brought me found it dubious. Every stereotype you can imagine about this subculture is true; the reality is even worse, much seedier and much more awful than anything I grew up with. It's a sad case of arrested development.
There are, of course, a few conlangs of philosophical or ideological interest: Lojban, Laadan, maybe Toki Pona and a few others. I don't think so highly of these either, but the conlanging hobby as I see it flowing into my newsfeed strikes me as decidedly infantile, as infantile as blockbuster films and "reality" TV, more childish even than all the crackpot Esperantists combined I've encountered over the past 45 years. Esperanto, at least, was designed for a serious purpose, and its subcultures exist at least to communicate, and while conlanging is a creative endeavor as any other, most of it in the final analysis is as pointless and redundant as the latest American film or TV series. O Stanislaw Lem, where art thou when I need thee?
Sociology of Klingonism, 23 December 2010
If I could have projected my 14-year old self forward in time more than four decades, I would have reveled in today's conlanger world. While I outgrew direct involvement in this sort of thing, I retain an interest in documenting it, and I can more or less respect the hobby . . . except when it comes to Klingon. Arika Okrent has provided a forceful argument that involvement with Klingon is not contemptible after all, which almost had me convinced, but ultimately I revert to the anonymous cynic who insisted that the existence of Klingon speakers is an argument for forced sterilization.
Now comes this sociological study, parts of which I find quite fascinating, as Mr. Spock would. Who knew that Pierre Bourdieu would be marshaled to analyze the Klingon phenom?
Klingon as Linguistic Capital: A Sociologic Study of Nineteen Advanced Klingonists
[Hol Sup 'oH tlhIngan Hol'e' wa'maH Hut tlhIngan Hol po'wI' nughQeD ]
Yens Wahlgren, Bachelor’s thesis, Soc 346, 41–60 p, Spring semester 2004, Department of Sociology, Lund University
Esperanto is cited for comparison, including Peter Forster's 1982 sociological study, The Esperanto Movement.
One surprising--to me--twist here is the dissociation between Klingonists and Trekkies. (I think they prefer to be called Trekkers, but I prefer the more supercilious term). I would think that Klingonism would be Trekkiehood taken to the point of a psychotic break, but oddly, many Klingonists begin with a fascination with the language and not with the fictional universe from which it originates.
Many Klingonists seems to lose their interest in Star Trek after speaking Klingon a while. This may be a result of that the average age is higher among Klingonists than Klingon fans. Star Trek fandom is in many ways a youth culture (Gibberman, 1991).
However the KLI as a socializing institution is probably one reason for the fact that many Klingonists not consider themselves as trekkers anymore. In the process of Klingonists becoming Klingonists is not only the process of languages learning. A kind of secondary socialization (Berger & Luckmann) is occurring when interacting in the peer group of KLI. Officially the KLI emphasize that they not are a fan organization. Their journal it is not a newsletter or a fanzine, it is supposed to be a scholarly journal, indexed by the Modern Language Association, that uses blind peer review. The education level of the Klingonists is as we have seen very high and it would be reasonable to assume that the use of an academic language and style is endorsed.
But compare this to respondent Adam:
The fact that there’s a rich fictional background to the Klingons gives this language incredible character, and makes speaking it fun.
If you’re speaking Esperanto, you can’t ask yourself, ‘how would an esperantoan express this idea,’ because there’s no such thing as an Esperantoan. There are fictional Klingons with a fictional culture, so one can ask ‘How would a (fictional) Klingon express this idea,’ and that makes it more fun.”
Many Klingonists choose to perceive and treat Klingon as a “real”, actual alien language and not as an artificial language. Thus they are not interested in creating new words for human concepts. Their goal with the language is not that it will be as easy as possible to use for humans, but rather they want to understand how Klingons use their language. This adds another dimension to the Klingon community. To become a notable member among Klingonists linguistic capital is not enough -- you need cultural capital as well to know how a Klingon would think in a certain situation. Or more specifically: how the group of Klingonists think Klingons think.
However, the influence of attempting to adapt Klingon to earthly needs is also felt.
The dissociation between interest in the Klingons in the Trekkie universe & the Klingon language is quite intriguing:
In the ordinary Klingon fan world where role-playing and dressing-up as Klingons is the major activity, the knowledge of Klingon is to be considered as sub-cultural capital, in the eyes of the relevant beholder. Though to be a Klingonist seems not automatically to get you sub-cultural capital. By judging from my informants opinions there is a conflict between Klingon fans and Klingonists. To actually learn the full Klingon language is seen as a waste of time and somewhat strange. In my opinion this conflict can be connected to the fact that the KLI states that it is not a fan organisation. It may as well be a result of different focuses; the KLI’s primary concern is intellectual and the fan groups activities is more practical (creating uniforms, Klingon weapons etc.)
Different respondents have different views, of course, so I may sense a contradiction based on conflating informants, but it's odd, I think, to wonder how a Klingon thinks without being interested in Klingons, i.e. as they exist in the Star Trek cosmos. It's like being interested in a culture without being interested in it. I suppose this could be just a small step beyond being interested in a language only for the language. So I guess this is not as pathetic as dressing up as a Klingon after all. Still, wondering how a Klingon thinks is like wondering how a thug from South Buffalo would express himself, and I'm glad I haven't had to think about that for some decades.
Verkis Ralph Dumain je 5:31 PM 1 komentoj
Rubrikoj: Arika Okrent, Babm, Dothraki, interlingvistiko, J. R. R. Tolkien, kino, Klingon, kulturkritiko, kulturpolitiko, Na'vi, Sam Green, sciencfikcio, Stanislaw Lem, subcultures, televido, usona kulturo, utopio
Zamenhof's 150th birthday in the Jewish Daily Forward
Here is an interesting old article just brought to my attention:
Zamenhof Days: December 15 and the Polish Jewish inventor of Esperanto
By Benjamin Ivry, Bintel Blog,
The Jewish Daily Forward, December 14, 2009
The occasion is the commemoration of L.L. Zamenhof's 150th birthday, particularly the Zamenhof Symposium at the U.N. featuring Esther Schor, Anna Okrent, and others.
Zamenhof's doctrine homaranismo is mentioned, as is daughter Lidia's involvement in the Bahá’í Faith, and the murder of all of three of Zamenhof's children by the Nazis.
William Shatner and the 1965 film Incubus, the creation of The Outer Limits TV series creator Leslie Stevens, are mentioned, with embedded video:
Also, there is another video I've never seen before, Jon Stewart's The Daily Show's parody of Incubus, "reported" by Mo Rocca:
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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Verkis Ralph Dumain je 5:17 PM 0 komentoj
Rubrikoj: Arika Okrent, Esther Schor, Incubus, Jewish Daily Forward, The Daily Show, videoj, William Shatner, Zamenhof, Zamenhof Symposium 2009
Zamenhof's 150th birthday on PRI's 'The World' radio
Paging Dr. Esperanto, and what not to say in Ireland’s parliament
By Patrick Cox, PRI's The World, December 17, 2009
An old program commemorating Zamenhof's 150th birthday, with links, as well as a sound file on Esperanto.  This broadcast also deals with words proscribed by the Irish Parliament.
Arika Okrent and Esther Schor are interviewed, with some attention to the Jewish roots of Zamenhof's creation. Okrent sees the late 19th century as the era of social engineering experiments. Schor discusses Zamenhof's background and motivations, as well as the egalitarian ethic of the Esperanto movement. And of course Incubus is mentioned. Okrent's moral: hand over your language and alow others to ruin its perfection, if you want it to succeed. At the end there's a recording of "The Girl from Ipanema" in Esperanto.
As an appendix, Cox gives us more of Schor's interview beyond the limits of the original broadcast format. She expands on Zamenhof's background, including his early preoccupation with the Jewish question, his desire to reform the Jewish religion, his project to reform Yiddish, his participation in the Zionist movement, projects all eventually abandoned for Esperanto. Schor describes Zamenhof's intervention and strategy for Esperanto in some detail, as well as the growth of the language over the ensuing 122 years. She mentions neologisms in connection with the ability to form compound words. Cox finds it difficult to pin down the motivations of Esperantists. Schor learned Esperanto to undertake her scholarly project; there are diverse motivations for others. She acquits herself very well in her presentation of the Esperanto world. Schor's forthcoming book on Esperanto is announced.
The Esperanto segment of this radio program comprises the first 20 minutes, 30 seconds. The rest concerns the Irish Parliament. This is an exceptionally fair treatment of Esperanto.
Verkis Ralph Dumain je 1:09 AM 0 komentoj
Rubrikoj: Arika Okrent, Esther Schor, Incubus, judoj, radio, Zamenhof
Arika Okrent reviewed again
On "In the Land of Invented Languages" by Arika Okrent, Short Story Reader (blog), April 1, 2011
The reviewer aptly summarizes Okrent's book. See comments, especially mine. I compliment Okrent's book, then amplify on Esperanto, on two points: (1) Esperantists do not all agree that the adoption of Esperanto inherently fosters world peace; even Zamenhof's argument was more complex than that; (2) Esperanto grammar is likely to continue as is in formal written and spoken usage, even if informally certain rules get violated, specifically omission of the accusative marker.
Verkis Ralph Dumain je 8:57 AM 0 komentoj
Rubrikoj: Arika Okrent, Esperanto-movado, interlingvistiko, pacismo, recenzoj
Arika Okrent pri Na'vi & aliaj inventitaj lingvoj
Here are a couple of public interventions from March:
SLATE, Posted Wednesday, March 24, 2010
"Without so much as a dictionary, Avatar fans are learning how to speak Na'vi."
Questions Answered: Invented Languages - Schott's Vocab Blog - NYTimes.com
This is an exceptionally detailed Q & A, with Okrent and Paul Frommer fielding the questions.
Verkis Ralph Dumain je 1:55 PM 0 komentoj
Rubrikoj: Arika Okrent, interlingvistiko, Klingon, Na'vi, Paul Frommer
Verkite 16 dec 2009:
Zamenhof Day | Homepage Feature | PRI's The World
Radio broadcast, December 15, 2009
Ĉi tiu radio elsendo estas elstara, laŭmemore unue el la plej bonaj pritraktoj de la temo iam ajn aperintaj en la usonaj amaskomunikiloj. Ĝenis min nur Arika Okrent, kies komento pri Esperanto impresis min kiel tre supraĵa kaj eĉ misgvida.
Postnoto 5 julio 2010:
Tiu estis granda tago por Zamenhof kaj Esperanto. Rigardu ankaŭ mian . . .
Web Guide to Zamenhof-Tago: 150th Birthday of L. L. Zamenhof, Creator of Esperanto, 15 December 2009 [Retgvidilo al Zamenhof-Tago: 150a datreveno de la naskiĝo de L. L. Zamenhof]
Verkis Ralph Dumain je 1:49 PM 0 komentoj
Rubrikoj: Arika Okrent, bibliografio, radio, Zamenhof
Why Esperanto Is Different
Why Esperanto Is Different
New English Review, Dec. 2007
This is a reaction to pejorative publicity. Okrent at the time of writing was one of the culprits, according to Beridichevsky, but her cited remark strictly pertains to the chances of Esperanto given English world domination, not to the value of Esperanto as a living language. Orwell didn't help either in his time, so it seems. But in making the historical case for Esperanto, the author cites more serious obstacles, such as the sabotage of Esperanto at the League of Nations by the French delegation, and the persecutions perpetrated by Hitler and Stalin. Okrent's cited article is:
Okrent, Arika. “Exploring Esperantoland,” The American Scholar, Winter, 2006, pp. 93-108.
Verkis Ralph Dumain je 1:38 PM 0 komentoj
Rubrikoj: Arika Okrent, interlingvistiko, Norman Berdichevsky
Arika Okrent & kreinto de Klingono intervjuitaj
Se vi volas lerni pri la Klingona lingvo en la sveda lingvo, jen viddokumento:
La kreinto de Klingono estas intervjuita; li parolas en la angla. Sekvas prezento de adepto de Klingono.
Post ĉi tiu dorkfesto, je 19:30 komenciĝas kelkminuta intervjuo kun Arika Okrent, kiu parolas en la angla. Ŝi skizetas bazajn periodojn en la historio de artefaritaj lingvoj: Wilkins (filozofia-logika), Esperanto (internacia komunikado), Laadan (la ina lingvo) & Klingono (hobiaj lingvoj).
postnoto 5 julio 2010:
Ĉi tiu video ne plu troveblas ĉe la indikita retejo.
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Rubrikoj: Arika Okrent, interlingvistiko, Klingon, videoj
In the Land of Invented Languages: Miscellaneous Reviews
I'm collecting various references gathered and comments made some time ago, but which I never posted here.
Written 27 June 2009:
Sunday, June 28, 2009
{review} IN THE LAND OF INVENTED LANGUAGES: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language By Arika Okrent
Book World Podcast: Download an Interview With Arika Okrent
The review is rather half-assed, as if the reviewer were too lazy to write anything beyond a few cliches. Well, nothing better can be expected from this cow town, anyway. The comments are not exactly brilliant, either. I have no interest in justifying Esperanto for being anything other than it is, and accurate reporting would be good enough for me.  One thing Esperanto is not is an attempted perfect or logical language, akin to either Loglan or the philosophical languages of the 17th century.  And only a minority of the minority of Esperantists who are stark raving mad are daft enough to think that a common language will lead to world peace.  Zamenhof himself did not think so, so he concocted an even more ridiculous notion of how that would happen, i.e. a universal religion that no real religion would ever tolerate.  Also, though Esperanto does attract nerds, it is light years away from what must be the appeal of Klingon, which is aptly summarized iun the character of Comic Book Guy in The Simpsons and William Shatner's famous put-down of Trekkies on Saturday Nite Live. Nevertheless, this review, like others, is good publicity for a topic that generally doesn't get this kind of attention.
Written 5 Sept. 2009:
I'll admit it. I think Klingon is cool.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Cate Morrison, The Doxophiliac Blog
Interesting reaction to Okrent's In the Land of Invented Languages.
On this particular bullet point:
"The goals for Esperanto sound a lot like those Peter Galison describes as linking Vienna Circle logical positivism and Bauhaus aesthetics, though Esperanto is older. Inventor L. L. Zamenhof sought to create a universal second language to foster peace. I link all three because each saw difference as the cause of violence between peoples and sought to erase the markers of that difference. The VC sought to overcome subjectivity by creating a logical structure of thought and expression which could be more resistant to miscommunication or misunderstanding. The Bauhaus movement stripped ornamentation from their creation and elevated the functional as the source of beauty without provincial/historical markers. The object is made transparent to the viewer--it is truthful."
Not the best of analogies. But since we are on the topic of the Vienna Circle, it is apropros to note that Carnap was an enthusiastic Esperantist, but he viewed Esperanto as a tool for social communication totally differently from his project of logical syntax, i.e. an artificial logical language or formalism. And I have the web pages to prove it:
Carnap on Wittgenstein & Esperanto / Carnap pri Wittgenstein & Esperanto
"Lingvoplanado" (Language Planning) de Rudolf Carnap (9/9/2004)
( For part of original English text, see Rudolf Carnap on IALs.)
Verkis Ralph Dumain je 1:15 PM 0 komentoj
Rubrikoj: Arika Okrent, filozofio, interlingvistiko, Ludwig Wittgenstein, recenzoj, Rudolf Carnap
Esperanto USA 2010 Congress (5): Arika Okrent on Esperanto & the 3 ages of invented languages
Arika Okrent was the keynote speaker on Saturday May 29. She commenced her speech in Esperanto and switched to English so as, in her terms, not to abuse the language. Rather than read a summary of mine, you can see and hear her talk for yourself:
OK, here are a few notes. Dr. Okrent claimed that the coverage of the 1910 Universal Congress set the tone for one approach to the journalistic coverage of Esperanto (bemused but not hostile), though in this case the extent of the press coverage is impressive. It seems that after a couple decades, "reform fatigue" set in in the public mind. The 3rd era of the conlang phenomenon, today's Klingon era, represents the coming out of J.R.R. Tolkein's "secret vice" of the pure pleasures of language creation, which now involve extrapolations of fictional scenarios or philosophical ideas, or incorporation of intriguing or "exotic" features of existing natural languages. The 2nd conlang era, dominated by Esperanto, is over. (The 1st was the era of philosophical languages that peaked in the 17th century), but the 2nd era shares with the 3rd a spirit of linguistic internationalism.
The Q & A period involved such varied questions, I won't attempt to summarize them this time around.
Verkis Ralph Dumain je 8:47 PM 2 komentoj
Rubrikoj: 2010, Arika Okrent, Esperanto USA, interlingvistiko, kongresoj, videoj
I recently finished reading Arika Okrent's In the Land of Invented Languages, and now I'm re-reading Andrew Large's The Artificial Language Movement. This led me to revisit my encounters with the Lojban subculture. (Lojban was based on James Cooke Brown's Loglan.) I participated in a number of interchanges with the Lojban people from 1988-1990. My principal concern was the Lojbanists' conceit of testing the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis by creating a metaphysically and culturally neutral language, though I interjected some rejoinders where misleading claims were made about Esperanto. Other Esperantists had a hand in these debates, most prominently the late Don Harlow and the philosopher Tod Moody. I had some influence, the harshness of my interventions notwithstanding. Apparently, the notion that stuck in people's minds was my assertion that cultural neutrality = cultural nullity. See:
Letter on Sapir-Whorf discussions at LogFest ’89 and other topics
There are links to related interventions and to the primary Loglan and Lojban web sites.
This reminds me of two topics that Dr. Okrent might have covered more fully: (a) the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, Lojban's real ability to test it or something else, and the Lojbanists' current thinking on the subject; (b) the nature of the Lojban subculture as an intentional community and its real capacity to enact its putative reflexivity.
To learn more about the development of Lojban and the thinking behind it see the Lojban File Server Roadmap. Here you can find links to old publications, history, discussions of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, discussions of Esperanto, various texts and translations, and much more. There are translations of Esperanto texts into English and Lojban.
I note these translations of interest to me:
"On A Bitter Occasion", by Kalman Kalocsay, Esperanto poet. Tr. Nick Nicholas (from Esperanto into English & Lojban)
Martin Luther King's famous "I Have A Dream" speech. Tr. Nick Nicholas (into Lojban)
A poem by Soviet Esperantist Evgeny Mikhalski. Tr. Nick Nicholas (extracts from the Esperanto poem "Ajno" translated into English & Lojban)
Other Lojban translations involving Esperanto include Legend (Orzekso), Lithuanian folk song, The Mildew of the World (Boleslaw Prus).
Verkis Ralph Dumain je 9:16 AM 2 komentoj
Rubrikoj: Arika Okrent, beletro, Don Harlow, interlingvistiko, kulturpolitiko, lingvistiko, logiko, Lojban (Loglan), Martin Luther King, neŭtraleco, Nick Nicholas, poezio, Sapir-Whorf, Tod Moody, tradukado
In the Land of Invented Languages
Temas pri verko de aŭtoro Arika Okrent: In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language [En la Lando de Inventitaj Lingvoj: Esperantistaj Roksteluloj, Klingonlingvaj Poetoj, Amantoj de Loglan, & la Frenezaj Revantoj Kiuj Provis Konstrui Perfektan Lingvon].
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La radioprogramo "On Point" [Punkte] de Tom Ashbrook publikigas intervjuon kun Arika Okrent: "Dreaming of a Perfect Language" [Revante pri Perfekta Lingvo"], jene:
Verkis Ralph Dumain je 5:46 PM 1 komentoj
Rubrikoj: Arika Okrent, bibliografio, Esperanto-movado, interlingvistiko
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