From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   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:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
      
   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.  That has nothing to do with whether I like to read   
   fiction with exotic languages in it or not.   
      
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