From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:52:39 -0500, William Vetter   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   > Michelle Bottorff explained :   
      
   >> Brian M. Scott  wrote:   
      
   [...]   
      
   >>> As you can probably guess, I *always* look at glossaries.   
   >>> Often before I even start the book!   
      
   >> You know, I think you're right. I probably could have   
   >> guessed that.  :)   
      
   >> Bit of trivia just for you.  (Because who else would find   
   >> it interesting?)   
      
   Diane Duane might; she put some thought into language for   
   the Door Into ... books.   
      
   >> At one point I wanted Borgim nouns to have a numbered and   
   >> an unnumbered form, rather than a singular/plural. (Sort   
   >> of like lots of hair and three hairs.)   
      
   That would certainly be different; I don’t know of any   
   language that has that feature.   
      
   >> But I had betareaders complain that it was too confusing.   
   >>  :(   
      
   I could have predicted that!   
      
   > I've seen a few novels in print with glossaries to   
   > invented languages. It implies "My novel has this   
   > language, and you'll need this glossary to follow it."   
      
   To you.  To me it says ‘You might find this helpful, and   
   besides, I had fun with it’.   
      
   > Please don't take this remark as a criticism of a work I   
   > haven't seen.   
      
   Brian   
   --   
   It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their   
   holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered   
   rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,   
   haggisss.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)