| Re: Invented Languages -- This way lies madness?
Well, there's the problem, isn't it: how much is too much, when it comes to invented or "evolved" languages? What delights one reader will put off another. Your additions to the language sound delightful to me, Aurelio -- though it's possible I might feel differently after pages and pages of it.
In "The Hidden Stars" they set all my invented-language spells that were in verse form in a different and otherwise beautiful font which nevertheless I thought hard to read and distracting. (Not that people could actually read and understand the words anyway, but I hope you take my meaning.) And even though I asked, it was too late to change it.
No one has complained, but I don't know if that means that nobody else was bothered by the lettering, or whether they just skipped over all that stuff anyway so it didn't matter. (They might even have taken it as a handy cue: Skim over this. It's more of that invented language nonsense.) |