{"id":345,"date":"2010-07-27T18:20:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T01:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2010-07-28T15:45:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T22:45:08","slug":"the-results-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"The Results Are In!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/twtpoll.com\/r\/nl7r0j\">twtpoll<\/a> received 38 responses. The question, you might remember, was:<\/p>\n<p><em>Who has had the most impact\/influence\/inspiration on you in your own conlanging?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The single person with the most votes was JRR Tolkien with 14; however, the &#8220;others&#8221; received more votes overall. Here is the raw data:<\/p>\n<p>Other &#8211; 15 votes (39%)<br \/>\nJRR Tolkien (Quenya, Sindarin, etc) &#8211; 14 votes (37%)<br \/>\nLL Zamenhof (Esperanto) &#8211; 5 votes (13%)<br \/>\nJohn Quijada (Ithkuil) &#038; Sonja Elen Kisa (Toki Pona) &#8211; 2 votes each (tie) (5% each)<br \/>\nMarc Okrand (Klingon) &#8211; 0 votes<br \/>\nI will admit I cast my one vote for Tolkien.<\/p>\n<p>The comments left by those responding to &#8220;other&#8221; were the most interesting pieces of information to come out of the poll. There were 13 in all. Some were general:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No-one has had any significant impact<\/li>\n<li>various fantasy novels with naming languages, but not Tolkien (haven&#8217;t read him)<\/li>\n<li>No one, really. I just read somewhere that artificial languages existed, and I thought it was a neat thing to do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Others named persons who were influential. One comment on the <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=338#comments\">previous post<\/a> said, &#8220;I think only to have conlangers here is a bit of an issue. I mean\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 my philosophy teacher was a big reason for me to start conlanging\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6&#8221; This is exactly why I was so glad we got the following responses to the &#8220;other&#8221; category:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edgar_de_Wahl\">Von Wahl<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Occidental_language\">Occidental-Interlingue<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Suzette Haden Elgin (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laadanlanguage.org\/pages\/\">L\u00c3\u00a1adan<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haruhiko_Kindaichi\">Kindaichi Haruhiko<\/a>, linguist of Japanese<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/idiom.ucsd.edu\/~ackerman\/\">Farrell Ackerman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M._A._Foster\">M.A. Foster<\/a><\/li>\n<li>(Latin), ? (?), <a href=\"http:\/\/humanities.byu.edu\/faculty\/iae2\">Elzinga<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.langmaker.com\/featured\/tepa.htm\">Tepa<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Rick Morneau (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~ram\/lexical_semantics.html\">Latejami<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>David Peterson (<a href=\"http:\/\/dedalvs.com\/kamakawi\/main.html\">Kamakawi<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E._Nelson_Bridwell\">Edward Nelson Bridwell<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jan van Steenbergen for his &#8220;historical bogolang&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/steen.free.fr\/wenedyk\/\">Wenedyk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The links are all my own, and the comments are typed here as they were at the poll. If any links point to the incorrect person, I sincerely apologize. That being said, I was fascinated to find that someone attached to MAD Magazine (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E._Nelson_Bridwell\">Edward Nelson Bridwell<\/a>) was instrumental in coming up with a &#8220;language&#8221; for Superman. I was glad to see our own David J. Peterson (or <em>Mr. Dothraki<\/em> as I like to call him) was mentioned. Suzette Haden Elgin is one conlanger that deserves more mention. All in all, a nice collection of esteemed names, both linguistically and conlanguistically.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for taking part in the poll! Head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/twtpoll.com\/r\/nl7r0j\">twtpoll.com\/r\/nl7r0j<\/a> to see the colorful graph created by twtpoll from our data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our twtpoll received 38 responses. The question, you might remember, was: Who has had the most impact\/influence\/inspiration on you in your own conlanging? The single person with the most votes was JRR Tolkien with 14; however, the &#8220;others&#8221; received more votes overall. 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