Category Archives: Model Languages

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Langmaker: Celebrating Conlangs

Twenty-five years and one week ago, I started an ASCII-email newsletter that I began posting on Compuserve. Its masthead and introduction: MODEL LANGUAGES The newsletter discussing newly imagined words for newly imagined worlds ————————————————————————– Volume I, Issue 1 — May 1, 1995 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HOBBY OF MODEL LANGUAGES Some people build model airplanes, some craft model trains and some… well, they invent model languages. Model languages can be everything from a few words of made-up slang to a rigorously developed system of interrelated imaginary tongues. It is not […]

More Gymnastics with Onomastics

Mark Rosenfelder has edited and updated my articles and essays from the Model Languages newsletter and the former Langmaker.com website, assembling them into the book Langmaker: Celebrating Conlangs. Available now as a Kindle or paperback from Amazon! Here’s the third issue I ever published. From [email protected] Fri Aug 4 12:13:39 1995 Date: 03 Aug 95 23:48:12 EDT From: Jeffrey Henning To: BlindCopyReceiver: ; Subject: MODLANG 3 MODEL LANGUAGES The newsletter discussing newly imagined words for newly imagined worlds ———————————————————————— Volume I, Issue 3 — July 1, 1995 MORE GYMNASTICS WITH […]

Inventing a Language for Naming People and Places

Mark Rosenfelder has edited and updated my articles and essays from the Model Languages newsletter and the former Langmaker.com website, assembling them into the book Langmaker: Celebrating Conlangs. Available now as a Kindle or paperback from Amazon! Here’s the second issue I ever published. From [email protected] Thu Jun 8 15:10:19 1995 Date: 08 Jun 95 13:06:25 EDT From: Jeffrey Henning To: BlindCopyReceiver: ; Subject: Copy of: MODEL LANGUAGES, 6/1/95, 1 of 2 MODEL LANGUAGES The newsletter discussing newly imagined words for newly imagined worlds ———————————————————————— Volume I, Issue 2 — […]
Langmaker: Celebrating Conlangs book cover

An Introduction to the Hobby of Model Languages

Mark Rosenfelder has edited and updated my articles and essays from the Model Languages newsletter and the former Langmaker.com website, assembling them into the book Langmaker: Celebrating Conlangs. Available now as a Kindle or paperback from Amazon! Here’s the very first issue I ever published. From: Jeffrey Henning <[email protected]> Subject: _Model Languages_, 5/1/95 MODEL LANGUAGES The newsletter discussing newly imagined words for newly imagined worlds ————————————————————————– Volume I, Issue 1 — May 1, 1995 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HOBBY OF MODEL LANGUAGES Some people build model airplanes, some craft model […]