From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:48:33 -0500, William Vetter   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   > After serious thinking Brian M. Scott wrote :   
      
   >> On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:52:39 -0500, William Vetter   
   >>  wrote in   
   >>  in   
   >> rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   [...]   
      
   >>> 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.   
      
   > Whether I choose to read or write fiction with invented   
   > words for everyday objects, tribal weapons, native   
   > animals, extensive kinship systems, etc., the presence of   
   > a glossary tells me there will be more than several.  [...]   
      
   Which is not (at least for me) the same as saying that   
   you’ll *need* the glossary in order to follow the novel.  I   
   very often find that I *don’t* need the glossary, because I   
   can pick up everything from context.   
      
   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.   
      
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