LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM
John Cowan
cowan at ccil.org
Sat Nov 12 15:34:30 CET 2005
Dave Hodder scripsit:
> Aklo is generally considered to be an artificial language, created by
> author H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) for use in horror fiction. Since his
> passing, many other writers have contributed to his so-called Cthulhu
> Mythos, including Brian Lumley and Stephen King.
As a Lovecraft enthusiast *and* a constructed-language enthusiast, I'd
like to support this; but really, it's rubbish. Lovecraft did no such
thing. In *one* of his stories, he refers to a book written in
Aklo, but he quotes none of it in the original. If this counts as
a language, so does Lapine in _Watership Down_ -- at least there are
a few words of Lapine in the book.
Furthermore, Lovecraft took the term "Aklo" from Arthur Machen, as he
did so many of his terms; but in Machen it is not a language but a
script.
Is there a single text in Aklo, or a single person who claims to speak it?
Is there any conceivable practical purpose which can be served by registering
this tag? No. We should reject it.
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