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Mention of Edward Powell Foster's Ro is entered into the U.S. Congressional Record (H. Res. 432), 1914.
From 1906 to 1931 from his hometown in Marietta, Edward Powell Foster published several books, a dictionary, and a newsletter using his language which he named Ro meaning "tell, say" in the language itself. Foster designed Ro to convey the meanings of words by their form. A number of supporters are listed in his books including Melvil Dewey, creator of the Dewey Decimal System. On March 2, 1914, Rep. George White of Ohio even introduced H. Res. 432 to the Committee on Education of the U.S. House of Representatives “providing for an investigation of a new language known as Ro,” securing a mention in the Congressional Record for Foster’s language. Mar 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
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A print version of the well-known Language Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder (aka The Zompist) is published, 2010.
Mar 11 Reading Fictional Languages symposium
This hybrid symposium brings together scholars, creators and practitioners of fictional languages from across the world to the School of English at the University of Nottingham. Mar 11 9:00 18:00Registration open until 10 March. Choose to attend either on-campus or online. ~ on-campus (including lunch and refreshments) £10 ~ online (including access to recordings) £5 tinyurl.com/fictionallangs pala@nullnottingham.ac.uk +44 (0) 115 951 5900 Israel Noletto, Crossroads of experimentalism and glossopoesis
Mar 11 9:15 9:45 Bettina Beinhoff, Does Quenya sound ‘specially pleasant’? Design intentions and actual perception of fictional languages
Mar 11 9:45 10:15 D. Bobeck, H. Hornecker, O. Olina, M-C. Walch, Q. Xia, & C. Mooshammer, Phonaesthetics of constructed languages: Results from an online rating experiment
Mar 11 10:15 10:45 Victor Fernandes Andrade & Sebastião Alves Teixeira Lopes, Designing the alien: a typographical comparative analysis between sci-fi conlangs and Asian \nlanguages
Mar 11 11:15 11:45 Kimberley Pager-McClymont, Constructing Lapine in Watership Down: lexis, syntax, and figures of speech
Mar 11 11:45 12:15 Andrew Higgins, Linguistic poachers and the early Star Trek story-world
Mar 11 12:15 12:45 Katie Wales, Changing tastes: reading the ‘Cannibalese’ of nineteenth-century children’s fiction
Mar 11 13:30 14:00 BenJamin Johnson & Nicolás Campi, The impersonal voice: conlanging for someone else’s vision
Mar 11 14:00 14:30 James K. Tauber, Tolkien’s use of invented languages in The Lord of the Rings
Mar 11 14:30 15:00 BenJamin Johnson & Anthony Gutierrez, Contouring the reader’s experience of conlangs in graphic novels
Mar 11 15:30 16:00 Martin Hadis, Jorge Luis Borges’ invented languages: meaning and paradox in fictional worlds
Mar 11 16:00 16:30 David J. Peterson & Jessie Sams, The art of language invention in television and cinema
Mar 11 16:30 17:00 Open discussion
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Estonian Native Language Day
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A main-belt asteroid is discovered by Finnish astronomer Y. Vaisala and designated "1421 Esperanto" in 1936.
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Aboriginal Languages Day
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