#artlangs

LCC11 will have over 26 hours of content (over twice as much as our last in-person conference); two invited speakers (Deaf linguist Dr. Erin Moriarty Harrelson and blind linguist Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen); ASL and BSL interpretation; two tracks; multiple specialty sessions, including sign languages, loglangs, and writing systems; both open and private meetups (Christian, pro conlanger, ASL signer, autistic, disabled, plural, queer, and trans & non-binary); and a special conlang-centric performance from the Riddlesbrood Touring Theater Company.

Please register by March 4th to have a say in scheduling and time allocations (it's in the registration form).

Register by March 11th to get early registration discount, and to order an LCC11 shirt (and to contribute your conlang to its design).

Regular in person registration is $95, online $30 — with discounts for early registration and LCS members, and as-able rates for self-declared financial need. Shirts are $20 plus shipping (if any), only available if ordered by March 11th.

We look forward to seeing you all there! Please, I would ask anyone who sees this to spread the announcement and news far and wide. It would really help us get the word out about our event! This year’s conference is *by far* the largest and most ambitious LCC yet.

Fiat lingua,

Margaret, LCS President

The last few minutes of The Final Problem: Mycroft says Eurus will speak to no one, but Sherlock goes and plays the Violin to her and she starts, turns around, eyes wide. They then play together. 

I am starting to think, given their exchange of facial expressions and the way Mycroft put the emphasis on “speak” that they were getting her to communicate in Solresol - the musical conlang that utilizes the Do Re Mi scale to form words and communicate. Considering they are Holmes siblings and speak multiple languages and play the violin (therefore music is not beyond their grasp.) It seems like something they would have learned to distract themselves for a while.

Does anybody know enough Solresol to say if this idea is true? if it is, what are they saying? 

For those who don’t know, toki pona is an artlang with only 120 words. In order to express a concept which is not limited to these words, you have to think of clever ways to say it using existing words. 

Not forest, but kasi mute (many trees)

Not music, but kalama musi (playful sound)

Not blood, but telo sijelo loje (red bodily liquid)

And so on. The same concept can be described differently in different contexts: when you mean “coffee”, you may say, for example, telo pimeja pona (good black liquid) or telo pi lape lili (liquid of little sleep) or even telo pimeja pi pilin iki (black liquid that tastes bad). You get the idea.

Also, it only has 14 letters and, aside from Latin writing and adaptations for many other wriiting systems, its own adorable pictographs: