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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 — […]

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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 […]

Crna Gora skull mountain in Montenegro as a watercolor

The Curse of Crna Gora

History on his head He wore a black mountain kapa Black border, red blood center, white war braid Black for Kosovo Polje, swarming with Turks Red for Kosovo Polje, bleeding his fathers’ blood White for the wars and the strength of his cause A millenium halved in war A mountaineer in love with hate A warrior from Crna Gora Italians had swarmed over the border Had stolen the capitol of Cetinje Now he guides his men for the black mountain “A friend can cross the karst in 6 hours, a […]

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