I suppose I've not been reading your blog long enough to know...what is that language you sometime break into? A google search on what you typed above led me in two directions...Irish mythology and Lovecraft's Cthulhu.
The Phnglui-wgah-nafh stuff is Lovecraft's fictional language Aklo, which is supposed to sound like it's spoken by a thing without human vocal cords. It's less "constructed language" than "nonsense words that looked good that day". He put little bits and pieces of it in his fiction, and I just cut and paste them when I'm feeling arcane.
I'm long winded. Getting my thoughts down to a punchier, more digestible form is an ongoing goal, and one I practice with varying degrees of success in comments to other people's blogs. But this is my house, and here I can stretch out on the couch.
I suppose I've not been reading your blog long enough to know...what is that language you sometime break into?
ReplyDeleteA google search on what you typed above led me in two directions...Irish mythology and Lovecraft's Cthulhu.
Heh. I was just free-associating with "nog".
ReplyDeleteThe Phnglui-wgah-nafh stuff is Lovecraft's fictional language Aklo, which is supposed to sound like it's spoken by a thing without human vocal cords. It's less "constructed language" than "nonsense words that looked good that day". He put little bits and pieces of it in his fiction, and I just cut and paste them when I'm feeling arcane.