Glossopoesis and Glottotechnia: The Art and Science of Language
The Third Language Creation Conference
"I find myself developing my own meta-myth about conlangers as language-bringers. In the spirit of play, in the rigor of serious linguistic exploration, in the willingness to live in one's own highest myth for extended periods of time, for explicitly not putting aside childish things, I think we are one of the points where the incursion of novelty in the run-up to 2012 reveals itself - in this case in a geyser of glyphs, a flow of new sounds, and newly ordered ways of making meaning." - Diana Slattery
"By the end of the weekend I was quite overwhelmed, literally trembling with overstimulation and with awe at the superabundance of talent -- it actually felt like an excess of talent, more than I could cope with, a diet of superficient richness." - And Rosta, on CONLANG
"The impact of meeting people sort-of-known for 15 years for the first time cannot be overstated. It closed a gap I wasn't even aware existed." - Amanda Furrow
"The conference exceeded my expectations. I am very glad I went and talked, and my perception of conlanging has changed so much I have no idea yet what the full extent of the consequences of that change are on myself and my projects. Thank you for all you have done to enable that to happen." - Paul Varkuzan
In short: LCC3 was a huge success. Thank you to everyone who made this possible, by contributing their work or presence.
More will come soon, but for now: please email with your feedback on everything - or submit ideas to our feedback forum at lcs.uservoice.com.
To see the webcam edition of some of the conference (we had multiple recording problems with this stream), click here. This is NOT the real version - we recorded everything on tape and with a direct-from-mixer audio feed - but that will take a while to get ripped etc, so this will have to do for now. When the real version is ready it'll be posted to the LCS Podcast, which we hope you'll subscribe to & enjoy anyway in the meantime.
- Stats: 43 people present plus 29 on IRC and/or Skype. 27 presenters plus 17 relay participants. 24 events. 13 posters.
- LCC3 Relay Results
- 2009 Smiley Award: Kēlen!
- IRC chat log (1mb HTML)
- Schedule and Presenters
- Program, posters, & slides
- Sale & auction
Sunday group pic by Ron Canepa (more coming soon!):
Standing: Schuyler Duveen, John Cayley, Brian Distin, Paul Varkuza, Sally Caves, David Durand, Amanda Babcock Furrow, Alex Fink, Sylvia Sotomayor, Jeff Burke, Tim Lang Smith, Ryan Connell, Jim Rosenberg, Colin Davis, Jeff Jones, Erin Peterson, David Peterson, Samantha Gorman, Lila Sadkin, Edrex Fontanilla, Despina Durand
Crouching: Denis Moskowitz, Jim Henry, Diana Slattery, Marc Moskowitz, Sai Emrys, Kelly Alioth Drinkwater, Bradford White, John Clifford
Behind camera: Ron Canepa
Not in photo but present: Baldvin Kári Sveinbjörnsson, Damon Baker, David Riley, Jim Henry's parents and brother, Kári Emil Helgason, Kathy Lowry, Thomas Leigh, Tony Harris, William Weir & guest
Telepresent: And Rosta, Arnt Richard Johansen, Carsten Becker, Don Boozer, Emerson Knapp, Jan van Steenbergen, John Quijada, Jorge Cristino, Kaleissin, Matt Haupt, Mia Soderquist, Mez Breeze, Parker Glynn-Adey, Sentaro Mizuta, Steven Travis, Timo Paulssen, Trent Pehrson, Viktor Medrano, Vincent Pistelli, +10 name unknown
Not present but presenting: Arika Okrent, Marta Masferrer, Peter Ciccariello, Rob Sato, Trey Jones