From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   on 12/04/2014, Brian M. Scott supposed :   
   > 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.   
   >   
   Take a Valium.   
      
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