Re: VMs: Enochian rambles

["Rafal T. Prinke" <rafalp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Grant wrote:
> 
> Barbara Barrett wrote:

> >A few years ago Enochian was dissected on the CONLANG list, the general
> >conclusion of the linguists there was that Enochian (language) was mutated
> >English and that if one memorized the rules of mutation it was possible to
> >"translate" an English thought into an Enochian phrase on the fly.

> This _is_ interesting. Did anyone go as far as actually writing down
> these rules (or trying to)?

The original research behind this conclusion was done by
Donald Laycock back in the 1970's or even earlier. He was 
an eminent Australian linguist (a friend of Jacques Guy)
who died prematurely in 1988. His finding about the Enochian
are included in the introductory part of his _The Complete Enochian
Dictionary_ first published in 1978 (there is a new paperback
edition on Amazon but I am not sure if it is identical
as one more author is listed - Lon Milo Duquette, besides
Donald Laycock and Stephen Skinner who wrote the introduction
and published the original edition).

I have not heard about any later authoritative linguistic
studies of the Enochian - but I admit I have not tried 
to be well informed on it for quite a number of years. Perhaps
Clay Holden will know better?

Best regards,

Rafal
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